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:

• Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored (Guardian)
• Growing old in Europe: long term care and pensions (European Commission)
• Ageism and gender (Ageing Equal)
• How Covid-19 exposed the systemic ageism at the heart of Britain (The Conversation)
• Can robot animals help treat loneliness? (Free Thought Blogs)
• Have more than 100% of older people been vaccinated? (Guardian)
• Who wants to live forever? (Independent)
• Is the advertising industry anti-ageing? (Centre for Ageing Better)
• Lockdown may have led to loss of strength and mobility (BBC News)
• Yasmeen Khan on ‘Do not resuscitate’ (Seriously, BBC R4)
• Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions (Start the Week, BBC R4)
• Britain’s ‘ageism epidemic’ creating a barrier for social care policies (Home Care Insight)
• u3a members unite with Ageing Better to challenge ageism (Centre for Ageing Better)
• A million over-65s ‘still at risk of loneliness as UK lockdown eases’ (Guardian)
• Mid-life for women is where ageism meets sexism (CMI)
• Peggy Seeger on the art of songwriting (Songlines)
• Hundreds of older people in Leeds ‘wiped out financially’ by social care costs (YEP)
• Lockdown led to positive lifestyle changes in older people (University of Stirling)
• Fewer older people are receiving psychological therapy than before the pandemic (Charity Today)
• Enabling age at work – how ageism and ableism overlap in the workplace (International Longevity Centre UK)

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