Healthy Ageing

Social, Behavioural and Design Innovations in Research

Judith Phillips, Elaine Douglas

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447375203
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gerontology
• Index: Social Sciences

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly homes, workplaces and communities.

Spanning co-design with older people, business collaboration and innovations in design, work, housing, culture and health, it explores the real-world impact of ageing research and the possibilities for business in developing an ageing market.

From age-friendly homes to climate-resilient communities, the book provides a rich evidence base for healthier, more connected lives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword by Cynthia Bullock
• 1 Introduction to challenges and opportunities for an ageing society
• 2 Co-producing research with people with lived experience
• 3 Towards ‘design gerontology’: learning from the SBDRP
• 4 Academic–business collaboration: multiple viewpoints in a complex landscape
• 5 Supportive Environments for Physical and Social Activity, Healthy Ageing and Cognitive Health (SPACE)
• 6 Global environments of ageing: towards co-designing climate resilient environments and communities for ageing well
• 7 Community environments of ageing: hospitality and retail environments
• 8 Individual environments of ageing: hearing loss
• 9 Sustainability in cognitively supportive home design: insights from research on designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing (DesHCA)
• 10 Supporting healthy ageing at work: improving the experience of mid-later life working and beyond
• 11 Healthier Working Lives: codesigning initiatives to support ageing residential care workers
• 12 Connecting through Culture as we Age: beyond ‘social’ connection for healthy ageing
• 13 Innovation in the outdoor visitor economy: towards inclusivity for people living with dementia
• 14 Intergenerational connectivity for promoting health and well-being across ages, places and spaces
• 15 Research and innovation in the healthy ageing domain: understanding a complex ecosystem
• 16 Reflections of a multi-disciplinary challenge research programme
• 17 Conclusion – future directions for research and innovation in healthy ageing
• Index