At Time to Shine we see and read a lot of interesting stories and resources about older people. We share a few of these with you each month.

Here’s the latest selection:

• How a lifetime of income inequalities can stack up against women in later life (Centre for Ageing Better)
• “Stop demonising older drivers” says road safety charity (Motoring Research)
• Small social networks promote wellbeing in older adults, say researchers (McKnight’s Long Term Care News)
• Cruel jokes about the old are everywhere. When will we face our ageism epidemic? (Guardian)
• Around the world in 80 creative ageing projects (Baring Foundation)
• Leeds City Council becomes the first local authority to commit to a new shared vision promoting healthy ageing (LCC)
• Why ageism in the workplace makes no business sense (Yahoo Finance)
• The Guardian view on the politics of ageing: don’t let our towns grow old (Guardian)
• The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly (BBC)
• Age rather than class has come to determine how Britain votes (Guardian)
• Social isolation is just one of the challenges older LGBTQ people face (Moments for Equality)
• ‘Digital prescribing’ – could tech provide the solution to loneliness in older people (The Knowledge Exchange)
• 5 myths about ageing you shouldn’t believe (The live-in care hub)
• Older people in prison: what do we know about them? (Medium)
• The Foreign Desk: ageing populations How Nordic countries are attempting to see ageing populations as an economic opportunity rather than a burden (Audio, 30 minutes) (Monocole)