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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Inclusive Design isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline
Nearly 50% of social housing households include someone with a long-term health condition. And yet home adaptations are still seen as an afterthought writes Laura Wood Director of Invisible Creations.
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Unpaid care is a feminist issue. Am I being unreasonable?
Yes, lots of men are carers,” writes June Andrews OBE. “But what I am saying is still true. The burden of unpaid care of older relatives is not carried equally.”
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Age inclusion: the strategic advantage for B Corporations
Mike Mansfield of ProAge explores why age inclusion is vital for B Corps striving to be employers of choice, and how it aligns with the core values that make certification meaningful.
