State of Ageing 2019 infographics

Age-Friendly Futures Summit: Advancing, leading and creating city regions and communities for an age-friendly world (25-27 March 2025)

This dynamic three-day event brought together over 300 policymakers, practitioners and researchers, from the UK and around the globe, to advance the creation of an age-friendly world.

How to guide: Creating an Ageing Well Ambassadors programme

Discover our ten steps for creating an Ageing Well Ambassadors programme in your own place.

Case study: Ageing Well Ambassadors in Sunderland

As Age-friendly Communities, places are actively involving older adults, ensuring they have a voice in shaping their environment and the services they use. This case study highlights how Sunderland City Council established a network of ‘ambassadors’ to help achieve these goals.

Health inequalities in older age between richest and poorest are widening

New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlight growing inequality in healthy life expectancies between regions and more local areas.

New Year resolutions to make a more age-friendly world

As 2024 draws to a close, we turn our attention to the new year and the good intentions for 2025.

Age Without Limits Day: Micro-grants for community groups information session (2)

An online information session on the Age Without Limits Day micro-grants for community groups.

Crucial that older people’s commissioner has sufficient powers, Ageing Better CEO tells parliamentary committee

Dr Carole Easton OBE was speaking at the Women and Equalities Committee in Parliament yesterday afternoon.

Inequalities in later life: Barriers to accessing local businesses and customer-facing settings

This report highlights the available evidence around how older people often have unequal access to local businesses and community settings.

State of Ageing 2019 infographics

Our State of Ageing 2019 report uses publicly available data to give a snapshot of what life is like for people aged 65 and older today, while looking at key areas: work and finances, housing, health and communities.