🇪🇺 Thank you Dubravka Suica for your speech at the #GoingForGold awards ceremony yesterday with Int Longevity Centre & ILC france! 🥉 Congratulations to the EU for winning bronze in our "Relay race" event. Read the full speech by the European Commission VP 👇 ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

A new estimate suggests India experienced almost 1.2 million excess deaths during the covid-19 pandemic. Unlike in most other countries, women's life expectancy declined more than men's newscientist.com/article/244036…

The thrust of Department for Work and Pensions announcement to make work work better is welcome - but focus must be across the life course ensuring more can work for longer. In 2023, one in ten over 50s were forced out of work involuntarily - a huge loss to the economy. 🧵1/2 gov.uk/government/new…

Expert speakers David Sinclair David Sinclair and Nadra Ahmed Nadra Ahmed will be joining us at the SOLLA Later Life Conference, October 8th. Leading the discussion on #BetterConversations in later life advice. Early bird tickets available until 31st July. bit.ly/4aBrGlX

Happy parkrun 🌳 day. 28 degrees in direct sun doesn't make for a fast time strava.app.link/9iTeZsYkKLb #Loveparkrun parkrun Japan

BREAKING: A powerful earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 hits off southern Japan, a tsunami advisory has been issued. apnews.com/article/japan-…

Today, the Int Longevity Centre is launching its latest report on life course immunisation.

Guardian news As a former member of the PM’s UK Prime Minister Champion Group for Dementia Communities and worked with Int Longevity Centre and University of Liverpool on their ilcuk.org.uk/financial-serv… project I welcome this Nationwide initiative. I urge banks and banking hubs to similarly support vulnerable consumers.

With the #Olympics now finished, VaccinesToday takes a look at the Int Longevity Centre #GoingForGold report to see who would win medals for immunisation 👇

600 people a day are having to give up work to provide unpaid care to family members or friends, due to a lack of flexibility and support in the workplace. Important report from Carers UK which makes the powerful case for paid carer's leave Helen Walker carersuk.org/reports/taking…

Irish men live 8 years longer nowadays than they did in 1990, and women live 6 years longer. We have transformed from having the shortest lives among Anglophone countries to being behind only Australia in our longevity. #PositiveIreland 🇮🇪 economist.com/graphic-detail…

There’s a huge business opportunity to invest in healthy ageing – but are governments and businesses responding fast enough? What’s the global innovation landscape when it comes to healthy ageing? UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge New from @ilcuk ilcuk.org.uk/matching-the-p…

Aged 66 or more? Hard up? Claim pension credit! Govt says average gain is £3900 a year including £200 or £300 winter fuel payment. Call 0800 99 1234 office hours or search pension credit at gov.uk. Ask turn2us.org.uk or ageUK.org.uk for help

Good to see this from the Prison Reform Trust. I agree that we need a national strategy for the care and management of older prisoners. This has been flagged for 20+ years but there has been very little action. prisonreformtrust.org.uk/national-strat…

This, by my colleague Joe Bernstein, is lovely on the great man that is Joey Jones. Mail Sport dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…

Great opportunity to promote the access of assistive technologies for older persons UN For Ageing UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) ILC Global Alliance Age UK Age International AARP International AARP AGE Platform Europe dor skuler eric kihlstrom Collider Health Ittay Mannheim Cynthia Bullock International Society for Gerontechnogy Int Longevity Centre Ageing Asia