Research News
New Journal Forthcoming: Journal of Population Ageing
Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Harper; George Leeson The Journal of Population Ageing will address the broad questions of ageing societies internationally, thereby stimulating discussion of North Americ...
October News digest
Don't panic, we have nothing to fear from an ageing society The UK should not fear its coming maturity. Mature societies need not be societies of old people burdened by providing health and so...
European employers need to rethink retirement.
European employers need to rethink retirement, argues Professor Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, in an interview with the Belgian publication, L'Entreprise L'Homme....
Singapore should avoid the mistakes of Europe during the last recession, warns Oxford Professor
Professor Sarah Harper advised Singapore not to make the mistake of Europe and cast out the experience of its older workforce as a method of coping with the upcoming global recession. In a spe...
Age of Uncertainty, says Institute of Ageing
Dr. George Leeson from the Oxford Institute of Ageing described recent findings from a research study about the real factors impacting life expectancy funded by Club Vita, In some fifteen radio int...
Criteria-of-choice or criteria-in-use? Audit of quality criteria in education research commissioned by the ESRC/TLRP
Dr Alis Oancea has been commissioned by the ESRC/Teaching and Learning Research Programme to carry out an audit of criteria of research quality currently in use in a range of relevant contexts of r...
Migration will not solve Europe's ageing challenge
Migration will not solve Europe's ageing challenge, warned Oxford's Dr George Leeson, when he addressed the European Strategy Forum held in Portugal. While many may consider the migra...
Scandinavian Welfare Model: the contract between generations and sustainability in the 21st Century
The Oxford Institute of Ageing are holding a joint one-day workshop with the James Martin School of the 21st Century, 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon, on Friday 23 May 2008 at the Old Indian Institute, Br...
Isolation of Older Men
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2103262/A-million-male-pensioners-live-alone-says-Help-the-Aged.html The number of male pensioners living on their own has soared to more than one million, with c...
Opportunities of Ageing Societies
In 20 years' time half the population will be over 50, bringing new challenges - but many benefits - to all Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Ageing So the UK is ageing. But the UK is no...
New knowledge on French Retirement
Despite having the highest total fertility rate, in Europe, the French are also looking at different ways of encouraging older people to stay on in work to address their dependency ratios, and Oxfo...