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Health outcomes of racially minoritised older people

October 19, 2022

Generally put, the gap in health between racially minoritised groups and the White British group increases dramatically with age. This means that differences in later life are very large, with common instances of racially minoritised people in their fifties and sixties having similar health profiles to White British people in their eighties. These inequalities are typically the result of disadvantages accumulated by racially minoritised people throughout their lifetimes.

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Conversations on Urban Ageing

September 29, 2022

The study of urban ageing brings together two of the most important social changes of our time: population ageing and …

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Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region 

June 30, 2022

Martin Zuniga, Tine Buffel and Felix Arrieta This blog post is based on a paper published in Social Policy and …

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AgeTech Innovation Week: COVID-19 and AgeTech

January 14, 2022

Hannah R. Marston1, Andrew Sixsmith2, Joseph Coughlin3 and Sara Aghvami4 1Research Fellow at the Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, …

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Understanding Digital Skills & Confidence through the Lens of Older Adults from Low SES Communities: The Adapt Tech, Accessible Technology (ATAT) Project

November 10, 2021

Marston, H.R1,2, Morgan, D.J2,1, Wilson-Menzfeld, G3, & Gates, J3 1Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education, Languages, …

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Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic

September 10, 2021

Authors: Patty Doran, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis and Mhorag Goff In the UK as …

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THE DAY AFTER ‘GROUNDHOG DAY’ ?

June 27, 2020

THE DAY AFTER ‘GROUNDHOG DAY’ ? I love that film.  I am uneasily amused by the idea of being stuck …

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Is the voluntary and community sector adequately resourced to support older people in the recovery from COVID-19?

June 17, 2020

By Sophie Yarker, Kirsty Bagnall, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, Camilla Lewis and Chris Phillipson The Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group, …

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Lost in the Community: A Brief History of Covid-19 and Residential and Nursing Home Care

May 22, 2020

Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) So, the question (see blog on April 8th) ‘Can society …

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Age and Ageism during Covid-19

May 1, 2020

Written by Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent. This blog was first published on 21 April 2020 on the Equality …

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