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Older people

August 2024

  • Residents of the Flevoflats, specially adapted accommodation for older people in Amsterdam, part of a plan to create caring neighbourhoods.

    How to fill the huge gaps in social care provision

  • Laughter lines of a middle-aged woman

    Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

  • Shona Robison speaking in Holyrood

    Scotland scraps universal winter fuel payment and prepares for more cuts

  • A rose by any other name … Sian Phillips in Juliet and Her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

  • America's dirty divide
    For Maui wildfire survivors who moved to Las Vegas, another climate disaster awaits: extreme heat

  • Science Weekly
    Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

  • UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

  • Energy customers urged to switch to beat winter fuel payments changes

  • Pensioner body calls on Reeves to reverse cut to winter fuel allowance

  • ‘I can’t stand being cold’: older people on losing winter fuel payments

July 2024

  • A hand turning a thermostat with a penny in the middle of the dial

    Many pensioners can’t afford to lose the winter fuel allowance

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    An elderly woman comes to hospital every second day. It breaks my heart to send her home

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Person reading energy bill

    What are winter fuel payments and who will lose and keep them?

  • An elderly lady with her electric fire on at home

    Pensioners in England and Wales: how will you be affected by proposed winter fuel payment changes?

  • Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could hit £86bn by 2050

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I made a life-altering decision in a toilet in New Malden

  • Emerging playwright schemes should include over 40s, say UK theatre figures

  • Up to 100,000 may have undiagnosed forms of dementia in England

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