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How to prevent accelerated ageing during and after the pandemic?
As we face a prolonged pandemic, many people feel we are ageing faster than before. Apart from generic variations, behaviours and life events also influence how quickly we age. Infectious disease, ...
Senior Entrepreneurship: Catching a Second Wave
There may be some concern that entrepreneurial activities would decrease as countries go through population ageing. This concern is more pronounced in higher-income developed economies, which exhib...
LANGUAGE AND THE LONGEVITY DIVIDEND
You know that feeling when you happen upon a news item and find yourself thinking: "Did I just read that correctly?" So it was when I read a story recently about a major British insurance...
Pandemic related stress: Strategies for older adults, their families, and their caregivers
As we look back on the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe in 2020, we can reflect more objectively on the wider consequences. One of these was undoubtedly an increase in general...
Can the Madrid Plan on Ageing (MIPPA) Current Review Benefit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region?
The ageing transition is happening in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It is happening fast that the governments, policies, and individuals don't fully realise it. Even though li...
Debating a Transparent British ‘carescape’ for health and social care reform
A story about British Social Care…. I recently shadowed a community nurse. I watched as she worked to enable a man with only one week left of his life to be carried from his bedroom to...
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Extinct: the things that become obsolete before we do
As most of us alive today are destined to live longer than ever before thanks to advances in medical science, one of the unforeseen consequences of such longevity is that many of the familiar manuf...
Should we be concerned about the role of choice in death and dying?
“Choice with regard to death and dying is a bourgeoisie thing. The bulk of people are just trying to keep themselves alive.” With this statement, Allan Kellehear, medical and publ...
Population ageing and semiconductors: the global race for digitalisation
Population ageing and digitalisation have been identified as major interesctions which will shape our future. The pressure to enhance national productivity and to overcome the potential chall...
Healthy Ageing in an Era of Climate Change
When asked about the biggest challenge facing us globally, Mick Smyer, Founder and CEO of the American non-profit organisation, Growing Greener, didn't miss a beat: "Ageing in an era...
Why youth participation in climate change remains a struggle
This week sees the endgame of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. Since 1995, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFC...
Changing parameters of inclusive design
Exactly 20 years ago, I was involved in a landmark project at the Royal College of Art with retail giant B&Q to develop a range of low-cost, lightweight, easy-to-use power tools that would make...
The hidden world of older women’s work
As the world’s populations ages, across nearly all societies women make up a majority of older people. We are all too familiar with the negative, even apocalyptic terms in which ageing societ...
The facts behind the headlines
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a traumatic experience at all levels – for individuals, families, communities and governments. The numbers are beyond the grasp of most of us, globally, around ...
Integrating stable and modifiable aspects of resilience into healthy aging
Of the many challenges in life course epidemiology is unpacking the complex interrelationships between stable and modifiable attributes across a lifetime of unique experiences and exposures that im...