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Home sweet home? The gap between housing supply and demand for an ageing population
Recent research by the International Longevity Centre (ILC), Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project and the 2016 Homeowners Surv...
Do you remember the Spirit Level?
Do you remember the Spirit Level, written by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson in 2009? It advanced what is still widely seen as an intrinsically plausible theory that more equal societies &...
Brexit and the Role of Migration for an Ageing UK.
The British Referendum of June 23rd 2016 is set to be a defining moment in British history. Whether to be reconsidered or not, whether to result in a stronger or diminished UK and EU, Anal...
The Survivor to Thriver strengths-based intervention for survivors of childhood sexual abuse: It’s not just about what’s wrong it’s also about what strong
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a devastating phenomenon with documented long-term effects (such as mental health problems, problems with self-esteem, difficulties in building trust in relationship...
Brexit: “A bewildering act of self-harm”
Where were you when you heard the news? As the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford noted in the early morning of 24th June 2016, this is an event which we shall all look back up...
RemaIN for Research
There are a lot of very good reasons for staying in the EU, but the one I specifically want to focus on here is Alzheimer's research. At the moment, there are no drug treatments that can off...
What is social innovation and what does it have to do with ageing?
Michael Young – Lord Young as he eventually became – has become celebrated as a ‘social entrepreneur’. He may not have coined the phrase, but his example certainly hel...
Why do some intergenerational programmes seem sustainable while others do not?
When policy-makers give their views on the sustainability of intergenerational programmes’, they often emphasise the responsibility of societies, institutions and people in general to promote...
Delay of the Dilnot cap gives us time to rethink how best to spend new money on social care
Many experts now believe that implementation of the long-promised cap against catastrophic social care costs, that was recently delayed four years to April 2020, will never happen. Local gove...
Food for thought
I wanted to share a couple of `controversial' food related stories that have cropped up recently – although you will probably not find them controversial if you are an economist. Be...
Media, communication, and the capacity to aspire amongst Kenyan youth
In anticipation to his seminar in Trinity Term 2016 Seminar Series on Adolescent Ecologies convened by Dr Jaco Hoffman, Prof Thomas Tufte blogs about Media, communication, and the capacity to aspir...
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Latin America is ageing and urbanising …and fast
Latin America is ageing and the region is urbanising quite dramatically. This was the focus of a group of international and regional scholars who met last month in the stunning Bolivian capital of ...
Migration and intergenerational relations in Southeast Asia
© All rights reserved by Andy Scott Chang Southeast Asia is very diverse: its eleven countries vary in historical, sociocultural and political economic experiences. Yet,...
During adolescence, the world expands for boys and contracts for girls.
This terms seminar series at the Institute addresses adolescence. ‘Navigating life in sub-Saharan Africa – adolescent socio-ecologies’ focusing on the environments in which...
Population Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities for the Museum and Gallery Sector
Previous blogs have addressed the benefits of engaging with art and culture in later life, which include the promotion of social engagement, health and wellbeing and reducing isolation. Older peopl...