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July 15, 2021
Have I got older (people) news for you!? (July 2021)
At Time to Shine we see and read a lot of interesting stories and resources about older people. We share a few of these with you each…
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July 15, 2021
Making best practice easy, the Warm Welcome way
Do you feel nervous before you start new activity? Don’t we all have a little prickle of anxiety as we open the door to a room full…
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July 12, 2021
International Day of Older People 2021 – Linking lives
International Day of Older People (IDOP), 1 October, is celebrated annually in Leeds, focusing on a different theme each year. This year’s theme is Linking Lives: a…
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July 10, 2020
Ageism and poverty
One of the big drawbacks of using sweeping generalisations to describe a group of people based on their age is that it can be very misleading. Assuming…
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June 24, 2020
Unconscious bias
In my last blog What do you expect at your age? I explored the structural ageism that exists in our society and the negative impact of this…
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June 10, 2020
What do you expect at your age?
Ageism, like all types of discrimination, works on a number of levels. Individual people are ageist, and the structures within society are ageist too. These ‘structures’ include…
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Ageism should come with a health warning!
Ageism can have harmful effects on our health and wellbeing. This is revealed in the largest examination to date of the health consequences of ageism in the…
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October 22, 2018
What we’ve learned – Walking With Confidence
Walk With Confidence 2018 Age UK ran this project to help people get out of the house independently, by buddying them with a volunteer to accompany them…
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