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1.6 million older carers worry whether they’ll be able to keep providing support
In Carers Week 2025, Age UK is calling on Government to provide more support for unpaid carers and is highlighting the concerning position of our 2.1 million unpaid older carers (65+) who shoulder an enormous amount of responsibility, often without the support they need.
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Older Londoners “losing sleep over financial struggles”
A new report from Age UK London highlights the mounting pressures facing older Londoners.
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Winter Fuel Payments rethink welcomed, but “more clarity needed”
Charities working with older people have broadly welcomed the shift in Government policy on Winter Fuel Payments, but say great clarity of the finer detail proposed is now needed.
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Independent Age: “State Pension and social security safety net failing older people”
In a new report from Independent Age, older people describe life on a low income as “limiting”, “joyless” and “like another lockdown”.
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10 million midlifers worry about staying healthy as they age
New research by Age UK reveals that three quarters (74%) of adults aged between 50–65 (equivalent to 10 million), worry about staying healthy as they age, and two thirds (65%) or 9.2 million worry about losing their independence as they age.
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Trust’s “community of innovators” plans to improve lives of older people
The St Monica Trust in Bristol has held the South West’s first-ever Healthy Ageing and Care Innovation Forum – with older residents playing a key role to make “co-design” a reality and not just an ambition.
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Why Age Inclusion is the future of Retail Financial Services
Big changes are underway within the financial services, caused by demographic shifts. In this blog for ProAge, Dominic John and Mark Glover set out how employers need to rise to the challenge.
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Urgent need to “ramp up dementia diagnosis and support”
A new report from ILC UK says that more than half of people with dementia are either undiagnosed or have no care plan. Improving dementia care and support, they say, could dramatically boost health, wellbeing – and even the economy. The new publication by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC), supported by the Alzheimer’s Society…
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LGBTQ+ older Londoners in crisis – new report exposes hidden hardship
A new report, “Precarious Lives”, explores financial hardship among older LGBTQ+ Londoners. Here, its author Mark Sladen sets out how a lifetime of discrimination faced by older LGBTQ+ people can have a long-term impact on their financial wellbeing. Earlier this Spring I helped produce a report – entitled Precarious Lives – which explores financial hardship…
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TV’s Rose Ayling-Ellis discusses teaching ExtraCare residents BSL
The BBC’s Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks, which recently aired was filmed at ExtraCare Trust’s Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village in High Wycombe. Making the programme not only made a big impact with the residents and the viewing public… but with Rose too.
