By Tim Barclay, CEO, Appello  Challenging preconceptions of older people and technology. When I have the privilege of visiting our customers’ social housing and retirement properties, I’m always...

Legal & General and STOPageism believe in building a society that gives people the opportunity to live the life they deserve. In this first piece, we focus on breaking down the barriers to ageing....

Did you know more people experience ageism than any other form of discrimination in the UK? In the latest piece by Legal & General and STOPageism, we take a look at the numbers behind ageism and what...

Summary of Centre for Ageing Better’s latest report: ‘An Old Age Problem?’: Centre for Ageing Better’s latest report analyses the language related to ageing and older people and has revealed...

Ageism in the Workplace Survey workingwise.co.uk is launching an ‘Ageism in the Workplace’ survey. Covid-19 has highlighted the ageism that exists all around us, including the ageism that we...

Overcoming hidden barriers. There are many hidden barriers that can make accessing services as we get older increasingly difficult, such as a worry of what others may think when asking for help, a lack...

In this piece from Legal & General, they discuss the hidden language of ageism that people use towards one another. They interviewed a few older people and asked them about ageist language and the...

Joyce Williams: A Positive Perspective on Ageing What have we done to the word “OLD”? What is going on that we have let ourselves hear someone else’s view of our lives?  Others say that getting...

‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.’ So goes the famous quote from The Go-Between. Life before COVID-19 seems like a very different place to the world we now live in....

We’re all getting older, so why is it that when you pass a certain age bracket it’s OK to be insulted? Why is the language of ageing so ageist? ‘Codger’, ‘old fogey’, ‘biddy’,...

We talk about intergenerational environments as being one of the key ways that we can create socially-inclusive communities and combat loneliness. But how can we connect older to younger people in the...

Our fashion industry is ageist.  In the next 50 years, there is projected to be an additional 8.2 million people aged 65 years and over in the UK – a population roughly the size of present-day London....