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Entries by Francis Davis
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Debating a Transparent British ‘carescape’ for health and social care reform

A story about British Social Care…. I recently shadowed a community nurse. I watched as she worked to enable a man with only one  week left of his life to be carried from his bedroom to...


Why not a British Provident Fund?

When the Conservative government announced its plans to address the UK ‘funding crisis’ in social care this week by raising a new ‘Health and Social Care Levy’ (based in the...


A place for ageing in Chinese aid for the ‘global South’?

For anyone in the UK who is concerned with  the possibility of a  secure old age at the bottom of the economic pyramid in Africa, what happens with overseas aid budgets matters. In post-g...


Ageing and the Elderly in Rwanda – The Missing Voice

In June the Commonwealth Heads of Government  (CHOGM) will meet in Kigali the capital of Rwanda . They have chosen ‘youth’ as their theme. Despite its ferocity the Rwandan genoc...