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Category Archives: Transitions

The Reflective Call of Carers Ageing without Children and/or Family: ‘Who will be there for me when I need it?

February 24, 2023

Robin Hadley is an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, an Early Career Researcher, founder member of the campaign group …

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Population ageing and urbanisation: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ‘ageing in place’ in cities

June 22, 2021

Understanding the relationship between population ageing and urban change is now a major issue for public policy and research. The …

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Can further education lead for learning in later life?

June 19, 2020

The decline in take up of adult and further education (FE) in the UK should be cause for acute concern …

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Creative Ageing SIG: YourStory

April 24, 2020

Crafting Relationships (UK) have shared their YourStory project with us.   “My husband and I were going to book a holiday, …

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Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care

April 8, 2020

Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …

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A new age of precarity for older workers in ‘secure’ jobs?

October 1, 2018

By Sarah Vickerstaff and David Lain We have heard much in the last few years about the growing experience of …

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Final reminder: Abstract deadline (24th January) for the 47th Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology, Manchester, 4th – 6th July 2018

January 18, 2018

Present a paper, poster or symposium at the 47th Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology in Manchester, UK, 4th …

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Reversing retirement

November 1, 2017

It is surprisingly common for retirees to reverse their retirement: New research from a cross-research council funded consortium led by Professor Karen Glaser at King’s College London suggests that up to one quarter of Britons have been “unretiring” in recent years. However, not everybody has the same opportunities to unretire: those who are already well-favoured may find it easier to supplement their pension income with paid work in retirement. In this blog post, Dr. Loretta Platts, lead author of this paper, explains more.

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The (Not) Real Marigold Hotel – older people in India

March 28, 2017

It was with interest and a little yelling at the TV screen that I watched the second series of BBCs …

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Look lively: using objects to reflect a long life

February 9, 2017

At some point in our lives, we’ve probably all discussed the objects we would save if our house was on …

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