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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...


Grandparents in the middle

Times Report on Grandparents http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4606512.ece At the Oxford Institute of Ageing, several studies have been undertaken on the...


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...


The new demographic timebomb | Sarah Harper

By the middle of the century, a majority of countries still enjoying the demographic dividend of youth will be in sub-Saharan Africa, UN figures show. Professor Sarah Harper comments on dem...