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Our events bring people, organisations and experts together to share knowledge and experience.

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Finding funds, fixing homes: innovation in local authority provision of home improvement grants and loans

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Centre for Ageing Better
10 Jul 2024

Finance is a fundamental barrier facing people who want to make improvements to their home. Learn how local areas are tailoring financial solutions to meet the needs of their residents.

  • Homes
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Building effective local home improvement services: Good Home Hubs

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Centre for Ageing Better
2 Oct 2024

What is a Good Home Hub? Learn about this comprehensive model for home improvement services and how it can benefit people living in your area.

  • Homes
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Housing quality and people’s health: making the case for improving health through housing

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Centre for Ageing Better
20 Nov 2024

Homes should be places of warmth and safety but for millions of people, their homes cause falls, asthma, heart problems, joint problems, and many more conditions. Understand how local areas are creating joint solutions across the health, care and housing sectors.

  • Homes

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Improving the recruitment of older workers

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Centre for Ageing Better
30 Sep 2021

In this webinar we explored the recruitment of older workers both from the perspective of employers and workers, as well as the impact of language in job adverts.

  • Work
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The Good Home Inquiry: How to get the homes we want

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Sep 2021

In this webinar we discussed the Good Home Inquiry’s findings and recommendations, the policy priorities of the public and the next steps needed to improve our homes and improve the lives of millions of people.

  • Homes
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Keep on movin' - the importance of staying active in your 50s and 60s

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Centre for Ageing Better
6 Sep 2021

This webinar explored the motivators and barriers to physical activity for people in their 50s and 60s, and what might work to help people in this age group feel the benefits and get active. With special guest, Derrick Evans MBE: Mr Motivator.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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How does digital connectivity support and enhance a good home?

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Aug 2021

In this webinar, hosted by the Good Home Inquiry, we examined how a digitally connected home supports  and enhances a good home and how we can ensure more people are connected in ways that work for them in their existing homes.

  • Homes
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Putting age in the frame

Event
Centre for Ageing Better
22 Jul 2021

This webinar looked at how imagery shapes and reinforces negative attitudes to ageing, and explored current efforts to depict older age in a more positive and realistic light.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The missing market – how can we each better meet the needs of over 50s consumers?

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Jul 2021

This webinar launched our report, which explores how we can better meet the needs of older adults through inclusive design.

  • Homes
  • Age-friendly Movement
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Responding to the experience of older people in the COVID-19 pandemic

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Jul 2021

This event marked the launch of the University of Manchester report, ‘Covid-19 and Social Exclusion: Experiences of older people living in areas of multiple deprivation’.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Digital skills to connect

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Centre for Ageing Better
8 Jul 2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected digital skills training for older adults?

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Developing Age-Friendly Communities to Support Healthy Ageing
Lang, L et al.
1 Apr 2024
This research report finds that faith organisations and spaces provide vital services to particular, often vulnerable, groups.
Systematic review of factors influencing loneliness in older-adult migrants
Ruan, Y-X., Cheung, M-C., Aging & Mental Health
9 Apr 2024
This review outlines factors that influence the loneliness experienced by older-adult migrants
Unpaid care expectancy and health outcomes of unpaid carers, England: April 2024.
Office for National Statistics
18 Apr 2024
This statistical bulletin outlines the unpaid care expectancy and health outcomes of unpaid carers in England.

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