Ageing Horizons

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Ageing Horizons

Ageing Horizons was published between 2004 and 2010. It was a review of analysis and research on policy futures in an ageing society. It also served as a thematic resource for abstracts, news, commentary, and debate on the policy issues that are likely to arise in the medium term as a result of population ageing.

Edited by Kenneth Howse

Ageing Horizons Issue 9, 2010: Ageing in Latin American, the Caribbean and the Iberian Peninsula

2010

Issue 9 (PDF, 1.60 MB)

Ageing Horizons Brief: Ageing emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

2008

Emerging market economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been growing rapidly over the last decade. Thanks to untapped natural resources, cheap labour, and the rising prosperity of a large army of consumers, some of these countries are attracting increasing international investment.

Ageing emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PDF, 343 KB)

Ageing Horizons Issue 8, 2008: The promise of lifelong learning

2008

Editorial: The Promise of Lifelong Learning by Alis Oancea (PDF, 356 KB)
Age and Productivity Capacity: Descriptions, Causes and Policy Options by Vegard Skirbekk (PDF, 162 KB)
Upskilling Older Workers by Ken Mayhew, Matt Elliott, and Bob Rijkers (PDF, 356 KB)
Age is just a Number? Rethinking Learning over the Lifecourse by Maria Slowey (PDF, 356 KB)
Intergenerational Learning and the Contributions of Older People by Sally Newman and Alan Hatton-Yeo (PDF, 356 KB)

Ageing Horizons Brief: Ageing workforces

2008

The workforces of different countries round the world vary considerably in their demographic characteristics. There are some countries, for example, in which only a minority of children can expect to survive to official retirement age; and relatively high mortality in middle age makes for a relatively young workforce.

Ageing workforces (PDF, 335 KB)

Ageing Horizons Issue 7, 2007: Fertility decline

2007

Editorial: Population Change and the Legitimacy of Population Policy by Kenneth Howse (PDF, 165 KB)
The Road to Low Fertility by David Coleman (PDF, 501 KB)
The Future of Human Reproduction: Will Birth Rates Recover or Continue to Fall? by Wolfgang Lutz (PDF, 292 KB)
Low Fertility and Policy by Peter McDonald (PDF, 157 KB)
Demographic Dividends: Determinants of Development or Merely Windows of Opportunity? by Ian Pool (PDF, 175 KB)
Data Brief - Fertility Decline: Trends, Drivers and Differences by Pavel Ovseiko (PDF, 711 KB)

Ageing Horizons Brief: Fertility decline: trends, drivers and differences

2007

If life expectancy increases and fertility remains constant, the age structure of the population changes: a greater proportion of the population falls into the older age groups.

Fertility decline (PDF, 359 KB)

Ageing Horizons Issue 6, 2007: Long-term care and ageing populations

2007

Editorial (PDF, 759 KB)
Long-term Care Policy: the Difficulties of Taking a Global View - Howse (PDF, 759 KB)
Securing Good Care for Older People: Taking the Long-term View - Davies (PDF, 758 KB)
Financing Long-term Care for Older People in England - Wittenberg and Malley (PDF, 759 KB)
Distributional Effects of Reform in Long-term Care - Karlsson (PDF, 759 KB)
A Journey through the Years: Ageing and Social Care - Jones (PDF, 758 KB)

Ageing Horizons Brief: Long-term care for older people

2007

In the end of the 18th century, Thomas Malthus maintained “the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man” (Malthus, 1798).

Long-term care for older people (PDF, 435 KB)