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Ethical loans support Yorkshire dementia care

Unity Trust Bank and Charity Bank provide loans of £8.5m for 30-room dementia care home in Bingley

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Guide set to get older people active

The Age-Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering guide introduces six principles that organisations working with volunteers can adopt to get more older people active in volunteering and their local communities.

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Funding to support recruitment of older workers

The Centre for Ageing Better and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) have given funding to five projects to pilot ways to make volunteering more age-friendly and inclusive.

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Intergenerational story time

A new intergenerational care programme has been rolled out in Cambridgeshire. Residents at Moorlands Court in Melbourn are being visited by pre-school children from the local Little Hands Nursery for arts and crafts, singing and story reading sessions, to help improve the happiness and wellbeing of all involved.

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Older people say don’t take away our window on the world

Older people are campaigning to save their free TV licences because so many of them have a disability or very little money

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Rightsizing homes could end downsizing culture

A report has called for an end to downsizing and for more “rightsizing” housing options for older people.

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New app saves dementia patients’ memories

Social enterprise claims a new app can help dementia patients save memories and share them with carers and families.

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