"Life is what happens while you are busy making plans", John Lennon famously said. In Stick Your Neck Out, another John talks about how his life changed dramatically and for the worse in his 50s and then, by the time he reached pension age, for the better - helped by the work of our charity the Beth Johnson Foundation. BJF focuses on what is possible from midlife onwards - even when dealing with illness, caring roles or low incomes - to plan ahead and learn how to get to grips with difficult life changes, in order to have as good a future as possible in older age. What did John do? He stuck his neck out, tried new things, didn't give up. ... Read more

The Positive Living Project is funded by Stoke Clinical Commissioning Group and is looking to train community volunteers, within Stoke, on health and wellbeing related topics such as; Exercise, Nutrition, Positive thinking and age-related illness prevention and awareness. ... Read more

COMUNICAR, a bilingual (Spanish-English) open access online journal devoted to look at communication, technology and media education is planning to publish a whole thematic issue on challenges and opportunities linked to communicating in an ageing world. In the call for papers guest editors explain that this issue approaches ageing not only as related to elderly persons, because as we move through life, we are all ageing, and we interact with one another from our particular generational position. Therefore, issues regarding Information and Communication Technology challenges and possibilities for multi- and inter-generational communication and cooperation are relevant to this special issue. ... Read more

Today is the launch of our Staffordshire Cancer Advocacy Project for the Central Stafford area. Already launched in North Staffordshire this project, funded by Macmillan Cancer Support, is going to help many cancer sufferer's with support and guidance through some very difficult times in their lives. The project will soon expand into South and East Staffordshire over the coming months enabling more cancer patients to get the vital support they need. Here today with us was Anna Lynall, Involvement Co-ordinator at Macmillan and organisations such as VAST, Katherine House Hospice,TCEOL, Disability Solutions, OPAAL, and the Red Cross. ... Read more

The Beth Johnson Foundation is one of the members of this commission, the report published 26th June was new research published by the Social Integration Commission and reveals that Londoners’ social lives are more segregated by age, social grade and ethnicity relative to the level of diversity than in the rest of Britain. People living in London, typically viewed as one of the most diverse cities in the world, are proportionally less integrated by social grade, ethnicity and age than the average person living in Britain. ... Read more