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Towards an age-friendly world
There are many ways to improve old age and make it a comfortable period of life, but hardly anything would be possible to achieve without an age-friendly environment. The problem of redesigning urb...
Ageing Canadians
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging will collect data on over 50,000 older adults for 20 years The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is the jewel in the crown of Canadian epidemio...
Rainy season in Costa Rica
The Institute’s Collen Research Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa[1] has recently been extended into Latin America thanks to additional funding from the European Foundation Life Sciences resear...
Are urban environments best for an ageing population?
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the annual conference on Future Cities organised by the Department of Land Economy in Cambridge. I was asked to offer some views on the implications of popula...
Student Debt and Intergenerational Fairness
When I started my undergraduate degree in 2003 tuition fees were capped at a mere £1,000 per year, though the Blair Government was already threatening to increase those fees threefold. ...
Friendship: a guarantee for our successful ageing
“A friend is a treasure” says a popular proverb, and research has finally declared that it is true: engaging and investing in good relationship increase our psychological and physical w...
Successful ageing: is life a win-or-lose game?
A couple of years ago I attended a seminar in London. The presenter, a medical doctor, spoke about the importance of self-presentation in modern life and, in particular, he focused on how older peo...
Improving Capabilities of Birth Cohorts of the Elderly in Russia, 1990-2020
Readers of an OIPA blog will know that, the process of population ageing in the developed countries has been accompanied by advances in educational attainments, professional skills, income and weal...
How Republicans’ New Healthcare Plan Stacks Up Against Obamacare for Older Adults in the U.S.
From the moment Obamacare was passed in 2010, Republican lawmakers have been explicit in their intent to “repeal and replace” the expensive health care bill that sought to address gapin...
Sparking debate where science, policy and the public meet
Across our lives science is presenting us with new choices. Advances in reproductive medicine are confronting young people with moral choices unimagined by their parents. Our workplaces are being t...
Social care funding: a modest proposal
This weekend, we had a street party in my Oxford neighbourhood as part of the Great Get Together to honour the memory of Jo Cox, the MP who was killed last year. For some of us with busy live...
What I’ve learnt about ageing from my grandparents
As I’m very close to finishing my PhD, I often think about my grandparents because they are the reason why I got here in the first place. They are both 83, both still working. Which is very u...
The Great Demographic Divide: Voting Patterns and Age
On Thursday the nation will, once again, head to the polling booths. As a statistician and demographer (as well as a voter under the age of 35), the difference in voting patterns by age is on...
Open data or data dump?
“More than 714,000 young people have registered to vote since Theresa May called for a snap election” begins a recent Independent article, before it goes on to speculate gently ab...
Is it possible to delay human ageing? The evolution of anti-ageing treatments
Is it possible to delay human ageing? Brian Hanley, the founder of Butterfly Sciences, a company that has developed gene therapies for ageing, strongly believes that delaying human ageing is alr...