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:
- Ageism can shorten life expectancy (Futurity)
- Don’t let prejudice against older people contaminate the climate movement (Guardian)
- How historic collection of M&S piano music has helped reduce anxiety in people with dementia (Yorkshire Post)
- Ageing – how our ‘epigenetic clocks’ slow down as we get older (The Conversation)
- Families sending relatives with dementia to Thailand for care (Guardian)
- Together in the 2020s – 20 ideas for creating a Britain for all ages by 2030 (United for all Ages)
- The gap between young and old has turned Britain into a dysfunctional family (Guardian)
- Exercise: we calculated its true value for older people and society (The Conversation)
- 2020: could it be the decade of healthy ageing? (Centre for Ageing Better)
- Charlotte and Lillian (BBC R4)
- Britain is one of world’s most age-segregated countries, study finds (Guardian)
- Should we treat ageing like a disease? (Raconteur)
- Age, not class, is now what divides British voters most (Guardian)
- 1 in 3 over 80s ‘provide vital unpaid care for loved ones’ in UK (Guardian)
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