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Our Community of Practice resource library brings together a catalogue of reports, studies and infographics on areas of interest to Community members and others interested in evidence around ageing better.

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From designing age-friendly homes to maintaining physical activity and supporting social connections, browse the library by theme below to access a wide range of relevant resources.

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Social connection in the COVID-19 crisis

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All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration
May 2020

This report from the APPG on Social Integration sheds light on the groups most at risk of isolation during the Covid crisis, the importance of maintaining strong community connections, the role of volunteering and mutual aid as a response.

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Home and dry: The need for decent homes in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better
Mar 2020

The Centre for Ageing Better and Care & Repair England's new report reveals that over two million over-55s are living in a home that endangers their health or wellbeing.

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Perspectives on “Novel” Techniques for Designing Age-Friendly Homes and Neighborhoods with Older Adults

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Brookfield et al, University of York
Mar 2020

This academic paper explores the methods of co-design for age-friendly housing - it analyses how to better involve older adults in the design process, looking at walking interviews, photo-elicitation, participatory mapping and 'Design Fairs' - highlighting each method's strengths and weaknesses.

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Barriers and facilitators of physical activity among adults and older adults from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK

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Ige-Elegbede, J et al
Jan 2020

This review attempts to address the fact that despite the increasing number of qualitative studies investigating the barriers and facilitators of physical activity among older adults from BME backgrounds in the UK, there is very limited review-level evidence.

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Projections of older people living with dementia and costs of dementia care in the United Kingdom: 2019-2040

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London School of Economics
Nov 2019

This report provides projections of the number of older people living with dementia and the costs of health care, social care and unpaid care for older people living with dementia from 2019 to 2040 in the UK.

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How simple policy changes can help us age better and prevent cognitive decline

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Mauricio Avendano Pabon and Ludovico Carrino
Nov 2019

This resource looks the effective of various factors including healthy lifestyle, medication, social and emotional wellbeing, social connectedness and loneliness, free bus travel, school leaving age and pre-retirement economic adversity on cognitive ability in later life.

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Barriers and facilitators of physical activity among adults and older adults from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK: a systematic review of qualitative studies

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Sep 2019

This review attempts to address the fact that despite the increasing number of qualitative studies investigating the barriers and facilitators of physical activity among older adults from BME backgrounds in the UK, there is very limited review-level evidence.

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Creating healthy places - Perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

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The King's Fund
Sep 2019

This King's Fund report investigates the importance of healthy place-making and the role of national and local organisations in achieving change. It features the Healthy New Towns programme as an example of good practice for alternative ways of community engagement.