A new report is available from The House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/public-services-committee/news/report-press-release/
Also issued recently a report from NESTA entitled ‘5 hours per day’ which investigates the impact of ageing and suggests new models of living and working in an ageing society: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/assets/features/five_hours_a_day
Other useful sites for getting reports and academic literature include AgeUk http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/ which has a professional resources website that links to blog postings and full text publications. There is a document library of policy papers: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/document-library-search-filter/ see some recent briefings: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/knowledge-hub-evidence-statistics/briefings-and-presentations/
The Centre for Policy on Ageing is a great website which provides free aces to its specialist Ageinfo database http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/ageinfo2.html where you can get references to recent articles and reports. It also has a directory of links to charities working in the field: http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/worldres.html
Other sites where you can do literature searching free include social care online: http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/
and the social welfare portal provided by the British Library http://socialwelfare.bl.uk/ Remember to register to get access to some free full text reports.
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