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Browse publications, including reports and infographics, on each of our four priorities and other areas of work.

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The State of Ageing in 2019: Adding life to our years

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Centre for Ageing Better

13 Mar 2019

Our report gives a snapshot of ageing today and in the future, focusing on the areas we know make a difference to people’s later lives.

Transforming later lives – our strategy

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Centre for Ageing Better

31 Jul 2018

We are living longer than ever before. Someone aged 65 today can expect to live to 85, nearly ten years longer than their parents’ generation.

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Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework

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Centre for Ageing Better

27 Feb 2019

The Centre for Ageing Better developed the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework, which is intended to stimulate ideas and provide thinking points for the ISCF.

Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision

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Centre for Ageing Better

12 Feb 2019

This report presents the models of delivery, issues, barriers and innovative solutions of community-based strength and balance programmes.

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Measuring ageing: An introduction to the Ageing Better Measures Framework

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Centre for Ageing Better

31 Jan 2019

This is a compendium of 63 measures, survey scales and their associated data sources looking at outcomes at the individual level related to ageing and later life.

The experience of the transition to retirement: Rapid evidence review

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Centre for Ageing Better

6 Dec 2018

Retirement from work is a major life transition. For many, retirement from paid employment is something to look forward to. But for others, retirement can pose many challenges and they find it difficult to adjust to their new role and circumstances.

Age is just a number: Views among people aged 50 and over in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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Centre for Ageing Better

20 Nov 2018

This analysis of the most recent data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, carried out by the Centre for Ageing Better, shows attitudes about ageing taken from a sample of more than 6,000 people aged 50 and over in England.

Primary research into community contributions in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better

18 Oct 2018

Ageing Better commissioned participatory research into community contributions in later life to better understand how older people currently contribute to and are supported by their communities.

Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering: Review of community contributions in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better

18 Oct 2018

This review of community contributions in later life calls on charities, voluntary organisations and the public sector to do more to support and sustain the good will and effort of older volunteers.

Adapting for ageing: Good practice and innovation in home adaptations

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Centre for Ageing Better

8 Oct 2018

This report identifies the elements of high-quality and innovative practice in the provision of home adaptations for older people. It highlights practical examples of local areas that are organising and delivering adaptations effectively.

Thinking ahead: Exploring support provided by employers to help staff plan for their future

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Centre for Ageing Better

28 Sep 2018

An exploration of what large employers are doing to support employees in their mid-life through to retirement, the delivery of interventions and the business context that led to interventions.

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Browse publications, including reports and infographics, on each of our four priorities and other areas of work.

Featured publications

Our report gives a snapshot of ageing today and in the future, focusing on the areas we know make a difference to people’s later lives.

We are living longer than ever before. Someone aged 65 today can expect to live to 85, nearly ten years longer than their parents’ generation.

Latest publications

The Centre for Ageing Better developed the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework, which is intended to stimulate ideas and provide thinking points for the ISCF.

This report presents the models of delivery, issues, barriers and innovative solutions of community-based strength and balance programmes.

This is a compendium of 63 measures, survey scales and their associated data sources looking at outcomes at the individual level related to ageing and later life.

Retirement from work is a major life transition. For many, retirement from paid employment is something to look forward to. But for others, retirement can pose many challenges and they find it difficult to adjust to their new role and circumstances.

This analysis of the most recent data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, carried out by the Centre for Ageing Better, shows attitudes about ageing taken from a sample of more than 6,000 people aged 50 and over in England.

Ageing Better commissioned participatory research into community contributions in later life to better understand how older people currently contribute to and are supported by their communities.

This review of community contributions in later life calls on charities, voluntary organisations and the public sector to do more to support and sustain the good will and effort of older volunteers.

This report identifies the elements of high-quality and innovative practice in the provision of home adaptations for older people. It highlights practical examples of local areas that are organising and delivering adaptations effectively.

An exploration of what large employers are doing to support employees in their mid-life through to retirement, the delivery of interventions and the business context that led to interventions.

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