Resources

This Technical Report accompanies State of Ageing 2025. This version covers the chapters published in March 2025. Further versions will be released as new chapters are published.

This report describes the multitude of positive impacts Age-friendly Communities are having on the local systems they represent and the older people that live there.

This handbook outlines the key features of age-friendly communities in the UK, and gives examples of practices and policies that can be implemented at a local level.

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

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

This framework has been developed to communicate what it means to be an age-friendly business and organises a broad range of ideas into the key steps any business can take to become more age-friendly.