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The “Move it or Lose it” Annual Healthy Ageing Conference

If healthy ageing is what ticks your boxes why not join Move it or Lose it’s annual healthy ageing conference Please join us on Friday 19th September at The Studio in Birmingham with guest speakers including Tony Watts OBE.

May 1, 2025
New group set up to bring people together to tackle ageism

A new British Society of Gerontology Special Interest Group (SIG) on Ageism has been set up – and here Heléna Herklots CBE sets out the challenges.

May 1, 2025
Stroke-affected people to benefit from “life changing” funding boost

Bristol After Stroke has received a major funding boost to provide life-changing counselling and emotional support for local people.

April 25, 2025
Age-friendly initiative launched in Bournemouth town centre

An age-friendly initiative aims to make Bournemouth town centre more welcoming to older people alongside a microgrant scheme to help businesses make age-friendly improvements.

April 25, 2025
Report reveals health and finance struggles of older private renters in energy-inefficient homes 

A new report from the charity Independent Age has revealed the difficult experience of older private renters in cold, energy in-efficient homes and the barriers in making the necessary property improvements.  

April 25, 2025
Call on Government to get older people back to work

The government needs to show greater ambition for the working lives of older people if it is to meet its manifesto pledge of an 80% employment rate for the country, a collective of expert organisations is warning.

April 16, 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

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