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“Demography, Ageing and Health” Conference
The recently convened “Demography, Ageing and Health” conference, hosted by the Oxford Institute of Population, brought together emerging researchers and established academics in a melt...
The Curiosity 'OF' and 'ON' population ageing
On September 29, for the first time ever, Oxford held a European Researchers’ Night. It was an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to explore how research affects and changes our life.&nbs...
Risky Business
I don’t remember the exact quote, but I do remember laughing (out loud). It was something like: “who knew there’d be three six-sigma events in one week?” This was a banker&r...
Visual explorations of household structures across the world
The institute is about to publish the fourth issue of the journal Population Horizons which I manage editorially, but more excitingly, where I also hold the unofficial title of Graphics Editor. One...
From intergenerational programmes in schools to intergenerational schools
Most of the contemporary literature in the intergenerational field falls into two broads categories: there are studies that have explored the nature of Intergenerational Programmes (IPs) and studie...
Libraries as a resource for ageing communities in the USA
Libraries are trusted community organizations that can provide services to senior citizens such as job skills training classes, information on benefits and healthcare services senior citizens are e...
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...