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Ageing in the Commonwealth report launched on Commonwealth Day
We are delighted to announce that the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing research report “Ageing in the Commonwealth” commissioned by the Commonwealth Association for the Agein...
Ageing populations are growing around our youth-obsessed Commonwealth
New research by CommonAge and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing shows that in the majority of Commonwealth countries, the absolute size of the older population will increase by at least 100...
Sir John Sulston (1942-2018)
The Institute of Population Ageing is greatly saddened by the death of Sir John Sulston. John chaired the Royal Society's People and the Planet Review. While neither an expert in&nbs...
Ageing in Common
The UK will be hosting an event entitled Ageing In Common: An International Perspective – and the event is running from the 16 to the 18th April in Reading. The event has been coordinate...
EAST Research Network Joint Workshop - ‘Silver Economy in Central and Eastern Europe’
Silver Economy in Central and Eastern Europe - Eastern-European Ageing Societies in Transition (EAST) Workshop in in Łódź, Poland, 22-23 June 2018. The ...
Is having a social life the answer to longevity? | Sarah Harper on CNN
Professor Sarah Harper is discussing the power of social networking on high life expectancies in CNN’s special report Vital Signs with Dr Sanjay Gupta. Vital Signs explores health stories ...
Journal of Population Ageing | Special Issue
We are pleased to announce that a new special issue of the Journal of Population Ageing is now available online. Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2018 Special Issue: New roles for older people ...
BBC Radio 4 | Sarah Harper
How do we prepare for an ageing population? What will living longer mean for the life choices we make? Professor Sarah Harper discussed increasing life expectancies with important implications f...
New Publication Alert: Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies
Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies: Active Ageing Index and its Potential Edited by A. Zaidi, S. Harper, K. Howse, G. Lamura, J. Perek-Biaas Description This book provides multin...
New Publication Alert
Global demographic change and grandparenthood by George Leeson Description Life expectancies at birth have increased at the global level from 47 years in the mid-twentieth century to a...
New Publication Alert
As the World Ages: When Older Populations Become the Majority by Sarah Harper. Description One of the great challenges facing the global order over the coming decades is the aging of the pop...
Ageing in the Commonwealth
The latest edition of Driven by Health magazine features the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing research report “Ageing in the Commonwealth” commissioned by the Commonwealth As...
New Publication Alert
Son Preference and Family Limitation in Pakistan: A Parity- and Contraceptive Method–Specific Analysis by Dr Melanie Channon (Frost). Description: Son preference exerts a strong i...
HDR UK | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed to the Board of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK). HDR UK supports world-leading research to develop cutting-edge analytical tools and methodologies to a...
United Nations Radio | George Leeson
With the launch of The International Labour Organization’s flagship report World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2018, Dr George Leeson was interviewed by the UN Depar...