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Set Pension Age Not Fair
On Monday 20 June 2011, Professor Sarah Harper gave an interview on BBC4 The Today Show about Life Expectancy and Pensions. She explained a better way to set pensions. This interv...
Prof. Sarah Harper on Life Expectancy and Pensions: Media Coverage
BBC News, 20th june 2011 'Scrap pension age, academic says' > Read BBC News feature 'Government defiant over women's pension age change' > Read article ...
The Economist: 'Health and longevity. A chinking time bomb'
The Economist has reported on Sarah Harper's recent London lecture in an article entitled 'Health and longevity. A chinking time bomb' . The article addresses Harpers arguments on unhea...
The Guardian's video coverage of Sarah Harper's lecture on population ageing
Main extracts from the Oxford London Lecture by Professor Sarah Harper, organized in association with the Guardian. Professor Harper examines the effects of population growth, global agei...
Science Royal Society's 'People and the planet' report delivers stark warnings
Wired.co.uk reports on Royal Society's 'People and the planet' report. The report is as a result of a 21-month study by the Royal Society, which brought together 22 experts, in...
Planning to flourish in a world of 7 billion
BBC News interviews Prof Sarah Harper on her recent Royal Society Report 'People and the Planet'. 'According to the UN the world population is set to rise to 10 billion before the en...
BBC Radio 4 interviews Dr George Leeson
On July 27th, Dr George W Leeson has released an interview to BBC Radio 4, 'More or Less'. The show examined the 'Age at death of the mothers of Presidents of the United Stat...
Sarah Harper speaks on global demographic trends - TEDx Helvetia video
Media coverage of Sarah Harper's TED talk on global demographic trends, held at TEDx Helvetia's conference in Lausanne (13/09/2012). In her presentation, entitled '2050: ...
Attitudes towards LGBT people in carehomes - BBC Radio 4
Is care staff in nursing homes homophobic? BBC Radio 4 interviews Institute DPhil graduate Tung Suen on attitudes towards LGBT people in carehomes (36:47'). > Listen to BBC Radio 4 Broadc...
Sarah Harper comments on UN global ageing warning - BBC Radio 4
A recent United Nations report has raised concerns about global population ageing, particularly in the developing world. Sarah Harper remarks upon the impact of changing population structure in BBC...
Aljazeera TV questions former fellow Hafiz Khan on ageing in developing countries
As the world's population ages at an unprecedented rate, the UN says more must be done to help the elderly. The organisation has released a report to coincide with Monday's International...
Why Britain's cities should become dementia-friendly
'The Voice of Russia' has released a radio interview of Professor Harper on dementia-friendly cities. Britain, like many other countries, has a population that's living longer. ...
Defusing China's demographic time bomb | Hafiz Khan on AlJazeera
Will the world's most populous nation review its 'one-child policy' as an ageing society places a strain on the young? China's new leadership will soon be confronted by an enormo...
Video interview of Dr. George Leeson for JDC-ICCD Oxford
JDC - International Centre for Community Development at Oxford University has released a video interview with Dr. George Leeson on the socio-demographic impact of ageing populations. In this int...
Marketing and Population Ageing | Norbert Meiners on Financial Times
Financial Times reports Norber Meiners Research on Ageing and Marketing. 'Norbert Meiners, a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and a specialist in older a...