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Startling new stats show nation’s health in decline and regional inequalities soaring

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26 Mar 2024

New ONS data reveals that where you live in the country can impact how long you can expect to live free of serious ill-health and injury by up to seven years.

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Celebrating Age Without Limits’ first national Action Day

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Carole Easton
22 Mar 2024

Wednesday 20 March 2024 will be forever remembered as a critical day in the growth of the Age Without Limits campaign and the life of the Centre for Ageing Better.

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Negative stereotypes of older people key driver of widespread ageism

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20 Mar 2024

A new survey commissioned by the Age Without Limits campaign reveals majority of people aged 50 and above feel the media and advertising depict older people in a negative and stereotypical way.

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What Labour should say about 50 Plus employment

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Emily Andrews
19 Mar 2024

As the prospect of a General Election looms ever closer, we’re beginning to learn what we might expect from each party’s manifestoes.

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Busting the “wealthy boomers” myth

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Aideen Young
14 Mar 2024

The post-war generation now in their 60s and 70s are often portrayed as wealthy beneficiaries of circumstance. Yet almost one in five live in poverty.

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Last week’s Budget will deepen financial strife of millions of already impoverished pensioners, new report reveals

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14 Mar 2024

The Centre for Ageing Better has published an extended State of Ageing 2023/24 chapter on finance which summarises in detail the concerning level of poverty and financial insecurity among the country's ageing population.

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Accidental ageists: quarter of the population discriminate or stereotype by age without realising

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12 Mar 2024

The Age Without Limits campaign releases new data ahead of first national Action Day which will see scores of events across the country including opening of Challenging Ageism: See and Be Seen exhibition in London.

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No place for older renters

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Beth Walters
8 Mar 2024

The impact of the housing crisis on poverty is an area of growing public interest and understanding, but older people experiencing financial insecurity are often overlooked.

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Latest research from others

World Happiness Report 2024
Helliwell, J.F., et al. – The Happiness Report
20 Mar 2024
The World Happiness Report 2024 explores happiness across different life stages in different parts of the world.
Gendered repartnering in later life: structural and processual dimensions of the transition into new relationships
Bischoff, L., Ageing & Society
1 Mar 2024
This paper examines gender differences in the ways in which relationships form for adults in later life.
A rapid review of the effectiveness of interventions for addressing digital exclusion in older adults
Wale, et al., Public Health Wales
22 Mar 2024
This rapid review assesses the effectiveness of interventions to tackle the digital exclusion of older adults.

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