We’re recruiting new Trustees to join our Board! We welcome all applications, especially from those with legal expertise. 🗓️ Deadline: 5pm, Monday 13 October 2025 📍 Interviews to follow. For the full role description and how to apply, visit our website: 🔗 ilcuk.org.uk/we-are-recru...

You can read the piece for @ilcuk.bsky.social here: ilcuk.org.uk/spending-rev...

Great that you're part of the ILC team @bjafranklin.bsky.social

Healthy ageing, work wellbeing, pandemic preparedness & disease prevention aren’t just health system issues. They underpin workforce capacity, economic stability & even military readiness: 🌐https://www.ifpma.org/insights/global-resilience-and-national-security-starts-with-preventing-ill-health/

By ignoring and dismissing ageing we're failing people of all ages @thetimes.com @bankofengland.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social

🧬 Longevity science is advancing fast - but are our policies keeping up? Join @ukri.org’s Human Futures: Human Longevity, exploring the impact of longer lives on work, pensions & society. 📅 27 March 2025, 12pm–4pm 📍 Prince Philip House, London SW1Y 5D 🔗 Register here: ow.ly/cUWU50VaQf9

Powerful report showing failures in nations including UK to address mental health in later life are unfair, costly and missing vital opportunities to offer effective help. We agree @centreformh.bsky.social and call on UK Government to include this in 10 year plan later this year

Older people benefit just as much from therapy and mental health interventions as younger ones. Great to see ‪@ilcuk.bsky.social‬ call for better mental health support across the lifespan.

Stigma and “stiff-upper lips” are preventing too many people from seeking support for serious mental health conditions ilcuk.org.uk/stigma-and-s... via @ilcuk.bsky.social

Thanks @the-independent.com for covering our #MindTheAgeGap report Ageism a ‘barrier’ for older people seeking mental health support – report 👇 www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...

Our new #MindTheAgeGap report published today finds that: 🟢 Ageism reduces older people's access to mental health services 🟢 A person loses 7.2 days a year to poor mental health 🟢 4.2% of GDP is lost to mental health conditions across the OECD Read the report 👇 ilcuk.org.uk/mind-the-age...

I’ve written a post over on LinkedIn about the increasing number of older people in prison and how education provision needs to adapt, based on my recent talk for @ilcuk.bsky.social. www.linkedin.com/pulse/meetin...

Thanks for attending, @magicmearts.bsky.social and for the summary! We're pleased you were able to join us for #FutureOfAgeing to learn more about demographic change and the key challenges an opportunities in an ageing society 👇

Deadline first thing tomorrow. Link below if you want to apply to work for @ilcuk.bsky.social #ageing #ClarityJobs #Research #Policy.

After 40 years of improvement, ONS stats published today show life expectancy for both men and women fell in 2021 to 2023. Just one in six girls and one in ten boys born in 2023 are expected to live to 100 - in 2016, "one in three of today’s babies will live to see their 100th birthday".

Great opportunity - application deadline is 9.00am on Tuesday morning

Lovely post from Avivah Wittenberg-Cox about @georgeploubidis.bsky.social presentation at @ilcuk.bsky.social #FutureOfAgeing conference on the "hugely precious resource" of our cohort studies:

Could you be responsible for maximising policy impact through research + policy analysis on the economic aspects of ageing? @ilcuk.bsky.social are looking for a SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW to develop + lead high quality research projects. Could this be you? Find out more: https://buff.ly/4gy6y31

And that's a wrap! @sinclairda.bsky.social closes this year's #FutureOfAgeing conference. Thanks to all those who attended and to our sponsors for their support with today's event 👏

"We need to rethink things from the bottom up - Manchester and London should work together to solve the challenges to help people to live well in later life." A huge thank you to @andyburnham.bsky.social for speaking at #FutureOfAgeing 2025!

"We could do so much better if we rethink what people could do living with dementia than doing nothing." @andyburnham.bsky.social Manchester offers support to people living with #dementia through music and other activities to help them live better quality lives. #FutureOfAgeing

"If you create well-connected age-friendly communities, that will give people the 'later life' lifestyle they're looking for." @andyburnham.bsky.social The "Haçienda generation" want to socialise and live an active older life, but we need to build these communities. #FutureOfAgeing

"I believe that you can't have an age-friendly strategy without a 'housing first' strategy." @andyburnham.bsky.social emphasises the importance of good housing and living conditions to ensure people live better quality lives during our Q&A session. #FutureOfAgeing

Thank you for joining us, @zoegarbett.bsky.social!

Thank you - stats from @inclusionlondon.bsky.social new report www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/services-and...

We're delighted to have @andyburnham.bsky.social join us at #FutureOfAgeing to share his insights on how to achieve better, longer lives. Manchester is a standout example of how to build an age-friendly city that includes good public services that help people and their longevity.

Our second breakout sessions giving us an experiential understanding of ageing: - Birth cohorts & inclusive ageing by @clscohorts.bsky.social - Value of play across long lives by Climate Play - Could commonhold help with later living? #FutureofAgeing

Our second breakout sessions have begun at #FutureOfAgeing! Lucy Hawthorne, Founder of Climate Play, is using Lego to help our attendees engage more deeply, honestly and creatively on the challenges of #ClimateChange

"We need a people-centred approach when creating places", suggests Sarah Allan. Housing and communities need people at the heart of their design if they are to meet the needs of an ageing society. #FutureOfAgeing

Design is absolutely vital - we need to create communities where we can exercise more and have better access to our communities, argues Sarah Allan, Head of Architecture and Urban Design at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. #FutureOfAgeing

Cynthia Bullock, Deputy Director of Healthy Ageing Challenge @ukri.org, discusses the key findings and examples from the Challenge and how #innovation is driving better healthy ageing across many areas in society. #FutureOfAgeing

"If we create dedicated spaces to mentor young people, we can halve some of the issues we currently have." Alastair Smith-Agbaje, CEO of Future Men, discusses the need to create better spaces for people to enable them to learn and engage in their community. #FutureOfAgeing

@zoegarbett.bsky.social @londonassembly.bsky.social discusses the challenges facing Londoners with housing stock - only 3% of housing is accessible, despite a target of 90% being put in place. #FutureOfAgeing

Thanks very much to the @ilcuk.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at this event on education and training for older prisoners. It’s a real challenge for prisons to provide the right offer for this group.

Thank you for joining us today and for supporting our #FutureOfAgeing conference! 👏

Unfortunately, an increasing number of older people are facing homelessness in the UK. Judith Banjoko, Director of Services at Shelter, explores the relationship between an ageing population, housing and homelessness, and what needs to be done to address the challenges. #FutureOfAgeing

"People of all ages need homes that are affordable and easy to run." Prof Becky Tunstall, @york.ac.uk discusses the needs different generations when it comes to building new housing stock. #FutureOfAgeing

We're beginning our afternoon sessions, hosted by @paulgoulden2025.bsky.social, on building communities and spaces fit for an ageing society. #FutureOfAgeing

Mental health issues when we are young increases the likelihood of economic inactivity when we are an adult. UCL Centre for longitudinal studies cohort studies.

Not one but TWO new policy roles @ilcuk.bsky.social now open! If you have excellent analytical ability, strong writing skills + a passion for UK public policy take a look: Research & Policy Lead: bit.ly/3CIC2FV Senior Research Fellow: bit.ly/3WPrFXz

Dr Matt Forshaw, @newcastleuni.bsky.social academic and Senior Advisor for Skills at the Alan Turing Institute, discusses the need to improve digital skills to help with productivity in the UK. #FutureOfAgeing

How do we plan for a 70-year career? Kate Ambrosi, CEO at Baker Dearing Educational Trust, looks at the role universities and technical colleges (UTCs) can play in equipping people with the right skills throughout their long lives. #FutureOfAgeing

Jon Collins, CEO @prisonersed.bsky.social explores the UK's ageing prison population and how we need to adapt skills and training in prisons to support this increasingly older cohort. #FutureOfAgeing

Wealth inequality is a key driver of creating an uncertain society and acts as a barrier to accessing skills, argues Will Snell, CEO @fairness.bsky.social Creating a fairer society is crucial to plan for the long term - better policies are needed for our long lives. #FutureOfAgeing

"In order to plan for the long term, we need great data - this will be able to support us with the challenges of population ageing but also help find new opportunities." - @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social #FutureOfAgeing

"Mental health matters when it comes to economic inactivity", argues @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Addressing poor #mental health is key to improving economic activity in the UK. #FutureOfAgeing

We're also lucky to have Home Instead's #dementia bus on site today - this interactive session allows people to experience elements of what it's like to live with dementia. @homeinsteadwlc.bsky.social @homeinsteadslo.bsky.social @homeinsteadlcn.bsky.social #FutureOfAgeing

How do we ensure social connections throughout our longer lives? The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is hosting an expert breakout session to explore the need to keep people connected in an era of demographic change. #FutureOfAgeing

We're now breaking out into different sessions to hear more from our expert speakers and organisations today. Martin Jones MBE discusses with ILC's Paul Goulden about how care has a role in keeping people away from the NHS by keeping them well for longer. #FutureOfAgeing

Our final speaker during this session is Jonathan Rawlings from the County Councils Network - he's sharing insights on how to deliver better social care. But there's a missed opportunity to exclude social care from the NHS's 10-Year Plan - so how do we address this? #FutureOfAgeing