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Shining a light on later life
This blog was contributed by Andy Glyde, Senior Campaigner at Age UK. The BBC season on ageing, When I’m 65, produced some excellent hard-hitting documentaries on what it is like to get older. As a...
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‘Missing’ older workers could boost UK
With the UK still mired in economic troubles and unemployment high, it is perhaps obvious that we need to get more people into work. Among older people, who find it harder than any other age group in...
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A means to many ends: experiences of flexible working
Being able to work flexibly can have a hugely positive impact on peoples’ work, and their personal lives too. Today we’re launched our new report, A Means to Many Ends, which looks at older workers’...
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Guest blog – Working beyond retirement age
This guest blog was contributed by Chris Ball, Chief Executive of TAEN, The Age and Employment Network. The idea of a given ‘retirement age,’ when most people abruptly cease work, may soon be a thing...
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UK life reimagined
A demographic revolution is under way, with more of us living longer than ever before. Fifty years ago there were nearly 20 million people in the world age 80 or over; now that figure stands at about...
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Meeting the challenges of an ageing population
Each year, Age UK stands back and takes an overview of how society is meeting the needs of people in later life and sets out our agenda for public policy in the year ahead. In our Agenda for Later Life...
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Making the Work Programme work for older jobseekers
It has been widely reported that that the Government’s flagship back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, was failing to help the unemployed back into work and was accused by the Labour Party of being...
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Age UK’s Economic Tracker: many in their early 50s fear losing their home
Last week Age UK launched the second edition of its Economic Tracker . This addition includes the result of the first wave of a survey we have developed to track older peoples’ views on the economy and...
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Guest blog – Striking a blow against age discrimination
This blog was contributed by Chris Ball, Chief Executive of TAEN – The Age and Employment Network 1st October – UK Older People’s Day and the UN International Day of Older Persons – saw the launch of a...
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Are people really ‘over-saving’ for retirement?
Defining what makes an ‘adequate’ retirement income is always going to be tricky. It’s inherently difficult to know exactly what people’s spending choices and needs are likely to be, or how they will...
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General Election Series: Making a (huge) contribution
This week’s blog from our General Election Series highlights the significant role older people play in society. Our ambition for the next Parliament is a world where everyone can participate in society...
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Age of opportunity: Recruiting and retaining older workers
This blog was contributed by Joanne Sawyer, Policy Adviser at Age UK An ageing population, the end of forced retirement and a rising State Pension age, mean that there are now more older workers (those...
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A great place to grow older?
Today, we launched our Agenda for Later Life 2015 report, Age UK’s annual assessment of how public policy is meeting the needs of older people. Here, Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy, discuss the...
View ArticleEmployment tribunal fees (at last!) ruled ‘out of order’
The 26 July 2017 should go down in legal history. It should be remembered as the day the Supreme Court shocked everyone by ruling that the Government’s regime of fees in the Employment Tribunal (ET)...
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