Government Office for Science 7 July 2016
- This report brings together evidence about the UK's increasingly ageing population to understand the implications for the UK both individually and public services.
- The report focuses on six areas that evidence shows will be significantly affected by the population ageing and increasing life expectancy - work, learning, housing, families, health and care, and connectivity.
- A series of 62 cartograms showcasing local disparities in factors relating to the ageing population across UK local authoritis
- The report is informed by a number of independent evidence reviews which provide analysis of the future of an ageing population in the UK, including
- health and social care services
- preventive health and social care services
- life expectancy and healthy life expectancy trends
- inequalities in healthy life expectancy
- emotional and personal resilience
- attitudes to ageing - influence of new technologies
- family care in the UK
- health and care infrastructure
- volunteering, informal care and paid work in later life
