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Age-friendly on a budget: A selection of good practice from the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities

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Rebecca Lines
4 Mar 2024

Becoming a more Age-friendly Community doesn’t have to cost the earth, writes our Age-friendly Communities Learning Officer Rebecca Lines.

In fact, it can often be a matter of doing what is already happening, with your ageing population in mind.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Learning together, building connections: Bringing the Good Home Network together face-to-face

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Livia Dragomir
28 Feb 2024

The Centre for Ageing Better and Foundations are bringing together local authorities in the Good Home Network to support learning, peer support and innovation in home improvement services.

  • Homes
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England’s new regional leaders can lead the way in improving later life

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Bianca Rossetti
23 Feb 2024

Millions of people will go to the polls in May to decide who will lead a growing number of Mayoral and Combined Authorities.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Dame Carol Black to lead occupational health taskforce

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23 Feb 2024

Centre for Ageing Better Chair Dame Carol Black will lead a new taskforce to improve employer awareness of the benefits of occupational health in the workplace.

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What will the retirement of the future look like?

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Emily Andrews
21 Feb 2024

Will working into our 70s become the norm or will retirement vanish altogether for many in the future?

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New survey reveals half of people don’t believe they will look good when they are old

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23 Jan 2024

The new data also reveals that significant proportions of the population have concerns about their mobility, mental function, competency in their jobs, and ability to drive as they get older.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Older workers will need tailored support to recover from steel plant redundancies

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19 Jan 2024

Tata Steel has confirmed it is cutting 2,800 jobs across the UK, including 2,500 at its Port Talbot site.

The steel industry is known for having a high proportion of older workers who are likely to be hit hard by this announcement.

  • Work
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Are you ageist? England’s first ever anti-ageism campaign launches

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Jan 2024

Today we're launching Age Without Limits, a hard-hitting new campaign highlighting the issue of ageism.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Is Aging a Disease? A Critical Review Within the Framework of Ageism
Mendoza-Núñez, V.,M. and Mendoza-Soto, A.,B.
24 Feb 2024
The paper challenges the World Health Organization (WHO) approach of classifying ageing as a disease.
Promoting good social work with older people and their families
National Children’s Bureau: Research in Practice
14 Mar 2024
The paper explores the role of social workers in supporting older people and their families, providing a toolkit for best practice.
Digital interventions for healthy ageing and cognitive health in older adults
Tasi, Y., et al., BMC Geriatrics
4 Mar 2024
This review synthesises evidence on the effectiveness of digital interventions on supporting the health and cognitive health of older people.

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