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Fuel poverty statistics
The latest annual report from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) covers the year 2011 – many energy price hikes and policy changes ago. The headline is that in England, the numbers...
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Cold homes, fuel poverty and healthy lives
It may be measured in baby steps, but at last the Department of Health (DH) is acknowledging the importance of cold homes, and living in fuel poverty, to the health debate. Age UK’s lobbying and...
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More cities sign up as Age Friendly Cities
This blog was contributed by Emily Georghiou, Age UK’s Public Affairs Adviser – Age Action. I recently had the privilege to attend the 2013 signing of the Dublin Declaration on Age Friendly Cities and...
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The Global Impact of Ageing: The Oldest Old
In an earlier blog we discussed how people aged over 85 are the fastest-growing segment of the UK population. However, this is not just happening here or in other industrialised nations; rather, it’s a...
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Depression: Asking the right questions
This guest blog from Alison Cranage of the charity MQ: Transforming Mental Health describes a project that aims to uncover the most important issues for depression research. If you, or someone you...
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