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What is retirement anyway?
Paul Gutherson of NDTi asks: what if we stopped thinking in terms of “work” and “retirement” or in terms of “work” and “leisure”, of “jobs” and “hobbies” and reframed the narrative being imposed upon us?
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Is expecting older people to downsize really such a good move?
On a regular basis the cry goes up: “Older people should downsize to free up their houses for younger families.” However, it’s not quite as straightforward as it’s made out to be.
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Reaching out in Gloucestershire to get older people’s voices heard
Representation of older people nationally, regionally and locally has become increasingly difficult in recent years as forums have been starved of support and Covid has discouraged meetings. Here is how one county is looking to fill that void. By Matt Fellows, CEO Age UK Gloucestershire There are some 150,000 older people across Gloucestershire – but…
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Unfilled job vacancies – are the over ‘50s the only answer?
Paul Gutherson of NDTi has been doing a little bit of digging around to try and get underneath the headlines screaming at us that there are approximately 1.3 million unfilled job vacancies… and that this is all down to people over the age of 50 rushing to retire. Get the “economically inactive over 50s” back…
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“Intergenerational conflict”: a false and divisive narrative
Peter Dale, of the English Ageing Network and South East England Forum on Ageing, contends that Intergenerational conflict is a false and divisive narrative that prevents us from addressing the real issues in society At the moment it really feels as though our society faces battles on every front: millions of us are struggling with…
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Why stamping out age unconscious bias in the workplace is vital
By Steve Butler, CEO at Punter Southall Aspire The findings from a YouGov poll on age discrimination in the workplace, commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better, revealed that two-fifths of more than 1,100 employees over the age of 50 think their age would put them at a disadvantage when applying for a job, and…
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Ageing and Autism
In late 2021 (writes NDTi’s Paul Gutherson) NDTi began thinking about what is known about the ageing process for autistic people. We were prompted by some of our colleagues and Associates who are themselves autistic and who are concerned that very little research or policy time is dedicated to this issue.
