Employment

The following selected 'Data sources', 'General websites' and 'Publications by year'  can be used to inform improving opportunities for fulfilling work amongst older people:

Data sources

• Productive Healthy Ageing Profile includes percentage employment in ages 50-64 and 16-64 alongside various measures of poverty at local, region and national level, published by Public Health England
• Subnational ageing tool includes age 50-64 years employment and 'economic activity' indicators at local, region and national level, published by the Office for National Statistics
• Economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over - annual 'experimental statistics' published by the Department for Work and Pensions
• Wider Determinants of Health tool includes a range of all-age 'work and the labour market' indicators at local, region and national level, plus signposting to further relevant resources, published by Public Health England
• Employment and labour market - published by the Office for National Statistics. A collection of data sources, including NOMIS and other tools providing flexible ways of extracting local level data.
• Wider Impacts of COVID-19 on Health (WICH) monitoring tool provides recent national level data on 'Business impacts' and 'Employment and income', with some indicators available by age group, published by Public Health England

General websites

• Work - programmes and research published by the Centre for Ageing Better. "Through our partnerships we’re supporting employers to create age-friendly workplaces and helping over 50s to return to employment."
• Work & Learning published by Age UK. "We can help you with problems over discrimination and your rights, information to help you find a new job or retrain and tips on improving your tech knowledge."
• Guidance: Help and support for older workers published by the Department for Work and Pensions
• Learning and Work Institute - "an independent policy, research and development organisation dedicated to lifelong learning, full employment and inclusion"
• Centre for Research Into the Older Workforce (CROW) - a University of Hull research centre "established to support employers in adapting their human resource management policies and practices to adapt to ageing demographics" 

Publications by year

• Living longer: impact of working from home on older workers (2021) published by the Office for National Statistics
• A study of work and health transitions: analysis of Understanding Society (2021) - an analysis of the longitudinal Understanding Society survey published by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health and Social Care
• Working well? How the pandemic changed work for people with health conditions (2021) - a report based on research by the Centre for Ageing Better and the Institute for Employment Studies
• Changing patterns of work at older ages (Crawford, R., Cribb, J., Karjalainin, H. & O'Brien, L., 2021) - a report and accompanying presentation published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies
• Enabling age at work. How ageism and ableism overlap in the workplace. (2021) - a report based on research by the University of Kent and VU Amsterdam, published by the International Longevity Centre UK
• Living longer: older workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (2021) published by the Office for National Statistics
• Too much experience: Older workers' perception of ageism in the recruitment process (2021) published by the Centre for Ageing Better
  
• Shut out: How employers and recruiters are overlooking the talents of over 50s workers (2020) published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• Mid-life support: Insights for employers (2019) published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• Guidance: Health matters: health and work (2019) published by Public Health England
• Living longer: caring in later working life (2019) published by the Office for National Statistics
• Let's take age discrimination more seriously (2019) blog published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• A silver lining for the UK economy? The intergenerational case for supporting longer working lives (2018) report publised by the Centre for Ageing Better
• Ageing and the workplace - A report from the BMA occupational medicine committee (2018) published by the British Medical Association (BMA)
• Older workers and the workplace: evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (2017) report published by the Department for Work and Pensions
• Attitudes to working in later life: British Social Attitudes 2015 (2016) report published by the Department for Work and Pensions
• NICE Guidance: Workplace health: management practices (March 2016 update for older employees) - publised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
• Local action on health inequalities: Increasing employment opportunities and retention for older people (2014) published by Public Health England and UCL Institute of Health Equity