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 big screen lessons in ageism can help marketers connect with older consumers (Creative Brief)
- Video of ballerina with Alzheimer’s shows vital role of music in memory (Guardian)
- UK’s damaging views on ageing revealed in new report analysing language used across society (Centre for Ageing Better)
- University of Leeds in national study aimed at improving older people’s mental health during pandemic aimed at improving older people’s mental health during pandemic (YEP)
- Ageing and Covid-19 – what do we know so far? (British Society for Immunology)
- Why no products for older people? (Innovate UK)
- Loneliness and isolation fuelling alcohol addiction in older people (Hippocratic Post)
- Let’s stop playing the Covid-19 generation blame game (Euractiv)
- An old age problem? How society shapes and reinforces negative attitudes to ageing (Centre for Ageing Better)
- Covid-19 has worsened ageism. Here’s how to help older adults thrive. (World Economic Forum)
- Ageing chimpanzees choose old friends over new connections (Science Focus)
- The case for an intersectional life course perspective in understanding unequal ageing (Healthy Lifespan Institute, University of Sheffield)
- Report highlights role of older people in caring and volunteering (workingwise)
- Covid is not an intergenerational conflict (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
- ‘A game changer’. The UK’s first LGBTQ+ extra-care housing scheme gets the go-ahead (Guardian)
- Older people finding life incredibly tough as pandemic continues (Social Care Today)
- Lockdown loneliness and anxiety across the generations (Nuffield Trust)
- Equality gains in the UK risk being reversed by coronavirus (Guardian)
- Covid 19 and the care of older people: we need an ethical approach by government (Di Galpin)
- ‘Awe walks’ can boost positive emotions among older adults (British Psychological Society)
- 5 countries that are ageing the best (and 5 ageing the worst) (Readers’ Digest Asia)
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