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:

• Why older men are getting lonelier – and what to do about it (Yahoo! Life)
• Despair as carers say ‘council won’t listen’ over plans to close Leeds care homes (LeedsLive)
• Clinically extremely vulnerable people say they are being ‘thrown to the wolves’ (i)
• Hundreds join call to restore Bramley Shopping Centre benches (W Leeds Dispatch)
• Retailers failing to cater for the growing over 50s market (Centre for Ageing Better)
• A Leeds performance company is breathing older life into new productions (YEP)
• Reconnecting lonely older people with their community (Social Finance)
• This week we’ll be mostly reading (Recognii)
• Reimagining day centres for older people (British Society of Gerontology)
• The more we see older women succeed, the more they will succeed (Guardian)
• Working well? How the pandemic changed work for people with health conditions (Centre for Ageing Better)
• Social care crisis: what options does the government have? (i)
• Care home challenges older people stereotypes by ditching ‘stooping pensioners’ road signs (carehome.co.uk)
• Suspending the state pension triple lock this year could hurt the poorest pensioners (i)
• Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored (Guardian)
• I do love getting older. Here are five infuriating reasons why (Guardian)
• Care ‘in’ and ‘out’ of place: the experience of ageing migrants (Migration Research Group)
• Four older LGBT people share what Pride means to them (Metro)
• Older people briefing paper (Race Equality Foundation)
• Socially excluded and too old to help? (Age UK)

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