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Author: Tony Watts

Extra care housing: can design help improve the health and wellbeing of older people?

Josie Dorling, an architect with Poynton Bradbury Architects, looks at how accommodation that is thoughtfully designed to promote social interaction among residents can help to combat loneliness and isolation.

April 14, 2025
5 easy habits for a longer, healthier, happier life

The Open University (OU) is launching a UK-wide month-long national challenge, similar to Dry January but for ageing well: Take Five to Age Well.

April 8, 2025
Living in the poorest parts of England can cost you almost five years of your life

Centre for Ageing Better’s State of Ageing 2025 report highlights the substantial variations in the experiences of growing older across England with the difference in life expectancy in the richest and poorest areas.

March 28, 2025
“Urgent action” needed as 1.9m older people in poverty

Independent Age has said that the UK Government’s figures show that “later life poverty is a massive issue that needs tackling”

March 28, 2025
Government’s spring statement “risks abandoning older people”

Hourglass is concerned that the welfare cuts, including a tightening of eligibility for benefits such as PIP, may leave “thousands of older and vulnerable people behind”.

March 28, 2025
Covid’s seismic shock on older people “still felt five years on”

Older people’s health, employment and community connection have failed to recover since the pandemic, our new analysis from The Centre for Ageing Better reveals.

March 25, 2025
Why are we waiting?

Procrastination isn’t just the thief of time. It can also be a thief of lives… as well as public money, writes Tony Watts OBE

March 20, 2025
Stigma and “stiff-upper lips” preventing access to mental health support

New research published by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) finds that serious mental health conditions are hampering older people’s ability to live more fulfilling long lives.

March 20, 2025
Online services “making life harder” for third of over 60s

New research by Age UK has revealed that 1 in 3 (31%) over 60s – equivalent to 5.1 million say life is much harder compared to five years ago because the things they want to do are online.

March 20, 2025
Older people face 450 questions to receive financial support

A new report from Independent Age highlights long and complex application forms for pensioner entitlements

March 20, 2025

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