Public Health Profiles

Attitudes to ageing

The following selected resources provide insights into attitudes towards ageing and suggest ways of challenging ageism:

Ageism - published by Age UK
Blogs - Ageism Plus - published by Independent Age
International Day of Older Persons: 1 October - United Nations
Information Service - Selected Readings - Attitudes to Ageing and Older Age published by the Centre for Policy on Ageing
The age of no retirment - goal: "To create a world where our age does not define us. Shattering age related barriers and ageist stereotypes. Creating an age inclusive future."
Age is just a number: Views among people aged 50 and over in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2018) report published by the Centre for Ageing Better
Views on the ageing society: survey of older people (2018) report published by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Ageism: the last taboo - highlights from a discussion event May 2018 published by the Centre for Ageing Better
That Age Old Question (2018) report published by the Royal Society for Public Health and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Inquiry into human rights and older people: Protecting our rights as we age (2018) report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Ageing and Older People
Independent Report - Health, ageing and support survey: 2017. Results of Ipsos MORI research into the views of people aged 50 or over on health, ageing and support (2018) published by the Department of Health & Social Care
Attitudes to working in later life: British Social Attitudes 2015 (2016) report published by the Department for Work and Pensions
The barriers to and enablers of positive attitudes to ageing and older people, at the societal and individual level (2015) report published by the Government Office for Science
Age & Opportunity - example of an inspiring approach in the Republic of Ireland

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