Carol Jagger

Healthy working life expectancy is the average number of years people in a population are likely to be healthy and in paid work from age 50. ALPA PROD/ Shutterstock

July 1, 2020

Retirement age is increasing – but our new study reveals most only work ten years in good health after 50

Marty Parker, Keele University; Carol Jagger, Newcastle University; Milica Blagojevic-Bucknall, Keele University, and Ross Wilkie, Keele University

For people who worked manual jobs (such as electricians or carers), this number was even lower.

Let’s think about our healthy ageing. BazRatner/Reuters

December 10, 2015

Mind or body – what do we need to worry about when it comes to healthy ageing?

Carol Jagger, Newcastle University

New research suggests Britons are living longer and in good mental shape – but it’s not good news across the board.

A life lived. Baby boomers by Shutterstock

September 8, 2015

Hard Evidence: what does the future hold for the baby boomers?

Carol Jagger, Newcastle University

The first to have benefited from the NHS the longest, more marriages and long retirement – but more living with disability too.

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Retirement age is increasing – but our new study reveals most only work ten years in good health after 50

Mind or body – what do we need to worry about when it comes to healthy ageing?

Hard Evidence: what does the future hold for the baby boomers?

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