This paper focuses on Italy and investigates active ageing by analysing the Active Ageing Index (AAI).  While maintaining the core of the methodology of the AAI, our purpose is threefold. Firstly, we aim at verifying the AAI index at regional level by comparing AAI results and identifying explanatory factors. Secondly, we intend to analyse the AAI results at regional level according to education, given that it is a key factor in influencing individuals’ life course and outcomes in terms of wellbeing in later life. Thirdly, we aim at examining different groups of old individuals by focusing on migration, since it is the second major phenomenon that shapes population structure and challenges Western society’s policies.

The first step of the analysis shows that the differences in some indicators by education vary by region. Moreover, very preliminary results suggest that even the best performing regions for migrants can further improve, both in terms of single indicators and in terms of the overall index.