This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at https://ari.org.uk/ by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.
How do the characteristics, needs and experiences of older workers vary in relation to work and health? What factors affect whether older workers continue in employment? What approaches work best to maximise employment options for older workers?
This encompasses priorities around:
- supporting the economy and ensuring the UK’s long-term prosperity by delivering the Plan for Jobs
- ensuring that it pays to work, and supporting in-work progression
- supporting those facing barriers to work to reach their potential in the labour market via Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs), In-Work Progression, support for older Jobseekers and the Youth Offer
Contact details
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
Related UKRI Projects
- Beyond the 10 000 steps: Managing less visible aspects of healthy ageing at work
- MICA: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE): Identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s.
- Integrated studies of working later in life: individual and contextual determinants of extended working
- Policies for longer working lives: understanding interactions with health and care responsibilities
- Health risks and benefits of extended working life (the HEAF Study)
- Extending working lives - health and well being implications and facilitators
- FACTAGE: Fairer Active Ageing for Europe
- EXTEND: Social inequalities in extending working lives of an ageing workforce
- The impact of extending paid work later in life on health and wellbeing: Using the past to guide the future
- Tackling health inequalities and extending working lives (THRIVE)