Blogs

New research by the Centre for Ageing Better and the Institute for Employment Studies highlights the challenges faced by employees with long-term health conditions, warning that more support is needed to help people manage their conditions in the workplace if the state pension age is to rise further. In this blog, Centre for Ageing Better Evidence Officer Amy McSweeney explains how the pandemic has widened the gap between supportive and unsupportive employers and what the government and employers must do in order to help people manage their health needs.

Ahead of the digital exclusion day of our conference (Tues 16 Mar), National Voices Policy and Engagement Officer Savannah Fishel says the issue of digital exclusion goes far beyond trying to maintain contact with patients during the height of a pandemic, and cuts to the core of deepening health inequality  More information, and how to register for our conference

I was invited to speak at the Building Back Fairer: reframing the conversation around poverty and health conference today. I spoke about poverty and health inequities following my own experiences of failing to access care or manage my health due to stigma, culture, poverty and lack of confidence. Sir Michael Marmot spoke on ‘Why we need to build back Fairer’ and Jo Bibby spoke on ‘How to build back Fairer.’ My own understanding of poverty and health inequities just scratches the surface and every person has a different experience of health inequity, it is not a blanket term.