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Investing in B2B products and services for the ageing workforces
More and more companies are coming to realise the importance of attracting, supporting and sustaining an ageing workforce. It’s easier to ‘sell’ this this kind of approach to work...
The rights of all older people need protecting
COVID-19 has exposed the harsh reality of ageism, age discrimination and human rights abuses that many older people face across the globe. While there are differing views on how best to protect our...
Enabling social contacts during Covid-19
It has been now seven months that Covid-19 not only entered Europe but also forced much of the elderly and vulnerable population indoors. Whilst initially the expectation was that this would be sho...
Covid is not an inter-generational conflict
As the early days of 2020 passed with most of us hoping for the first signs of spring to drive away the greyness of a long winter, infections from a mysterious virus rose shockingly. The infections...
‘Greying’ the UK Integrated Review of Foreign, Military and Aid Policy
This summer many in Whitehall who may need a holiday will be hard at work: The government’s major ‘Integrated Review’ of foreign, military, trade and aid policy is late than...
What lessons have we learnt to help mitigate a second wave of COVID-19?
As we went into lockdown in March 2020 we were very much in the dark as to the behaviour of the virus and how it would affect different parts of our population. Today, as we consider action in the ...
Some thoughts on modelling Covid-19 infection spread in care homes
The high death toll in care homes during the peak of the epidemic attracted a lot of media coverage as well as speculation about how and why this happened, including the possible contribution of pa...
Should older people who are not severely ill have the right to ask for assisted dying?
This summer, on 17 July 2020, Dutch parliamentarian Pia Dijkstra submitted a controversial legislative proposal that would allow healthy older people to have assistance with dying if they cons...
Role of a virus in Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Dementia afflicts over 50 million people worldwide, and the numbers affected will rise as more people survive to old age. The emotional costs to the sufferer and the carer are huge, as are the econ...
A new approach to fertility projections
In 2018 the research group behind the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies published a set of life expectancy projections which made use of an innovative approach to projecting future trends in l...
Ageing in America 40 years on
Forty years ago, the industrial designer Pattie Moore conducted a daring piece of social research. Aged 26 and working in New York at the famous Raymond Loewy design studio, she decided to find out...
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Why You Do Not Know What You Will Be When You Grow Older: Rethinking Careers
‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ This is probably one of the most common questions asked to children. The expectation is to hear an answer like fireman or doctor – a pro...
The containment of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic as a question of intergenerational justice – a German perspective
The measures taken in Germany to respond to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have imposed restrictions and burdens on people in all age groups: Schools were closed and working age adults were required to wo...
The growing appeal of investing in ageing populations
We are now more than 6 months into the COVID19 pandemic, which still seems to occupy the exclusive attention of many policy makers and businesses. Economic uncertainty remains high. globally,...
How employers must adapt to longer lives
I absolutely loved The 100 Year Life, a book by two London Business School professors, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott. It was one of the first books to examine how our ability to live longe...