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Help with home adaptations: improving local services

Care & Repair England

12 Nov 2019

This guide includes a ‘Home Adaptation Challenge Checklist’, a list of possible questions that anyone with an interest in improving delivery of home adaptations will find useful in discussions with local providers. It will help members of older people’s forums, councillors and disabled people’s groups to work with their councils to review local provision, e.g. helping speed up the time it takes to install home adaptations and adopting best practice.

Plugging the leaks in the UK care home industry

Centre for the Health and Public Interest

8 Nov 2019

This report identifies where each pound that goes into the care home industry ends up by using a forensic study of the accounts of over 830 adult care home companies, including the 26 largest providers.

Care England manifesto 2019

Care England

4 Nov 2019

Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has launched its Long Term Plan for the independent adult social care sector.

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New coalition formed to tackle lack of suitable housing

The Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition calls on the next government to make all new homes accessible and adaptable.

When We're 64 – Your Guide to a Great Later Life

New book from Louise Ansari, published by Green Tree – Bloomsbury, gives the essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

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Planning is a key part of the solution to creating homes for everyone

Planning deregulation has been high on the political agenda in recent months. But whoever forms the next government must learn from recent experience to ensure that we are creating homes which meet the needs of our changing population.

What does the gender pay gap mean for women in later life?

After the 14th November, women are said to 'work for free' for the rest of the year as a result of the gender pay gap. But how does the gap affect women in later life?

Centre for Ageing Better appoints senior figures to drive forward work on later life

The Centre for Ageing Better appoints David Orr as Associate Director for Housing and Justin Newman as Director of Strategy and Partnerships.

What can productivity figures tell us about working in later life?

With productivity in the UK falling, much more needs to be done to make sure employers are supporting and upskilling their older workers.

Putting older people at the heart of urban transformation

A new project has been exploring the experience of older people living in urban places.

How communities across the country are coming together to tackle ageism

On the International Day of Older Persons, communities across the UK came together to call for an end to ageist discrimination.

What does it mean for a city to be accessible?

Accessibility can mean a variety of different things, from wheelchair access to comprehensive information. For the historic city of Chester, becoming an accessible city has been a careful, long-term process - with real rewards.

Response to Sport England's figures on extra million people becoming physically active

According to new figures from Sport England, there has been an increase in the number of older people taking part in physical activities.

Ageing Better leads over 60 organisations in setting out shared vision for healthy ageing

Ageing Better and Public Health England (PHE), along with over 60 organisations, will work together to make England the best country in the world to grow old.

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Read all the latest news and blogs from the Centre for Ageing Better

Top stories

The Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition calls on the next government to make all new homes accessible and adaptable.

New book from Louise Ansari, published by Green Tree – Bloomsbury, gives the essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

Latest news

Planning deregulation has been high on the political agenda in recent months. But whoever forms the next government must learn from recent experience to ensure that we are creating homes which meet the needs of our changing population.

After the 14th November, women are said to 'work for free' for the rest of the year as a result of the gender pay gap. But how does the gap affect women in later life?

The Centre for Ageing Better appoints David Orr as Associate Director for Housing and Justin Newman as Director of Strategy and Partnerships.

With productivity in the UK falling, much more needs to be done to make sure employers are supporting and upskilling their older workers.

A new project has been exploring the experience of older people living in urban places.

On the International Day of Older Persons, communities across the UK came together to call for an end to ageist discrimination.

Accessibility can mean a variety of different things, from wheelchair access to comprehensive information. For the historic city of Chester, becoming an accessible city has been a careful, long-term process - with real rewards.

According to new figures from Sport England, there has been an increase in the number of older people taking part in physical activities.

Ageing Better and Public Health England (PHE), along with over 60 organisations, will work together to make England the best country in the world to grow old.

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