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The Asian Active Ageing Index: Findings for Indonesia and Thailand

The speed of population ageing is among the fastest in the member countries of the ASEAN[1], which is a matter of high significance for the social and health care services for older persons. Other ...


Inequalities in the Capabilities of the Elderly in Russia and Planned Extension of Research to China and the Koreas

This blog reports on a recent research report I completed for a project in Moscow on inequalities in medical care and health status of the elderly, as well as plans for the preparation of an equiva...


Technology, ageing, and the importance of including older adults in research

As the the world experiences a global demographic shift towards older adults, we are simultaneously experiencing an unprecedented expansion in technological innovation. Naturally, these two phenome...


Intergenerational fairness (again)

In 2018, the House of Lords appointed the Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision “to consider the long-term implications of Government policy on intergenerational fairne...


Ageing, fashion and health

Why doesn’t the fashion industry pay more attention to the needs and aspirations of older people? This has been a regular cry for as long as I have been studying the dynamics between ageing a...


Rise of Job Insecurity: What Age Groups Are Most Affected?

It is with nostalgia that some generations look back on having had thirty-year careers in the same solid company. The notion of stable, lifelong employment appears to be a relic of the past. It has...


Promoting active ageing in China

The policy discourse on population ageing is often presented as a crisis for our societies, in both developed and developing countries alike. This is particularly the case when considering the poli...


Older workers and the growth of social capital

In the seemingly never-ending conversation about the "future of work," older workers figure prominently. There is growing recognition that enabling older workers to remain economically pr...


Elderly Care: A New Chapter for HR in Japan

Does your employer provide you support to address the elderly care needs of your parents or parents-in-law? How do such policies compare to those of other organisations? In Japan listings of such c...


Initiatives for ‘age-friendly environments’ need precarity-thinking

The main focus of my research is what one might call ‘the shadow side of old age’: living with dementia, tiredness of life, living towards death in modern times, and the question of how...


MOVING FROM THE MARGINS

Promoting and protecting the rights of older persons in Pakistan Earlier this week, on June 25th, British Council Islamabad launched the report ‘Moving from the Margins: Promoting and prot...


Addressing the sexual and reproductive health rights of older women

Earlier this month, “Women Deliver”, the 5th Global Conference on Gender Equality, Health, Rights and Well Being of Girls and Women, took place in Vancouver. This is the world’s l...


Titchfield City Group on Ageing: A Global Stocktaking of Age-Disaggregated Data and Ageing-Related Statistics

Population ageing is now a major policy concern in many countries around the world. Societies are changing quickly as more of us are living to more advanced ages and older people are becoming ever ...


Ageing Populations and Automation: How Will These Trends Shape the Future of Work?

Recent media coverage on the future of work overwhelmingly highlights two trends: ageing populations and automation. But what do we know about how these developments will interact? This was the sub...


A glimpse into financial elder abuse

A few years ago, my mother died unexpectedly and I was left to take care of my father. In his late 70s at the time, my father had never written a check or paid a bill. He had been completely depend...