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The Levelling Up White Paper has made closing the gap in healthy life expectancy one of its missions. This is how Age-friendly Communities can help.

We look at the work Greater Manchester have been doing to create a shared vision and ambition to increase the supply of age-friendly homes.

The scrapping of VAT on home energy efficiency in the recent Spring Budget Statement is a welcome move – but it doesn’t go far enough.

Formal volunteering shifted in different ways among age groups throughout the pandemic, with informal volunteering rising considerably.

Age-friendly cities and communities were well-placed to respond to the pandemic. Encouraging communities to join the Network is more important than ever before.

Omitting over 75s in preventable death statistics has worrying implications for the value we place on older people’s lives.