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Author: Tony Watts

Older Londoners “losing sleep over financial struggles”

A new report from Age UK London highlights the mounting pressures facing older Londoners.

May 28, 2025
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.

May 22, 2025
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”.

May 16, 2025
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.

May 1, 2025
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.

May 1, 2025
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.

May 1, 2025
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…

May 1, 2025
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.

May 1, 2025
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.

May 1, 2025
How a BBC Documentary sparked a Sign Language Movement in a retirement village

What started as a six-week experiment has become a heart-warming legacy of transformation at ExtraCare Trust’s Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village in High Wycombe. By Charlotte Millions.

May 1, 2025

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