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Using design and open policy making techniques to address complex problems
Some of the big drivers of population change seem immovable in their trajectories and prominent in their profile. Yet deeper analysis reveals a world of complexity just below the surface. Foresight...
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The Future of an Ageing Population team has worked with academics for over a year collecting together 200,000 words of evidence for what an ageing population in 2040 might look and feel like. No busy...
View ArticleThe future of an ageing population needs a response today
By Anna Dixon, CEO, Centre for Ageing Better. The UK population is ageing. More of us are living longer than ever before and the proportion of the population aged 65 years and older is growing as the...
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Design for an ageing population
The UK is in the midst of significant changes to our population. Foresight recently worked with Policy Lab and Central Saint Martins to investigate how design can help an ageing population. Read more...
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Mapping the ageing population
People in the UK are living longer than ever - a major achievement of modern science and healthcare. To help policy makers understand the implications of ageing, Foresight created interactive maps...
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Why housing matters for the future of an ageing population
Seven facts that explain why housing will be critical for the ageing UK population. Poor quality housing in the UK costs the NHS an estimated £2.5 billion per year through negative effects on health....
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A new approach to understanding Scotland's ageing population
How an evidence ‘safari’ helped us to think about the policy issues facing the ageing Scottish population. Like all advanced economies, Scotland’s population is ageing. The number of people aged 75 and...
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How will an ageing population change the way we work?
Our working lives are becoming longer as the UK population ages. Work will be a critical part of the how the UK adapts to having an older population. This post presents 5 pieces of evidence from the...
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Materials to help you plan for population ageing
During the Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project we worked with Policy Lab to run a series of workshops. In these sessions, we presented policymakers with evidence from our project on...
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This blog is now closed
We've published the final outputs of our Future of an Ageing Population project and will no longer be updating this blog. Population ageing will affect all of us. To help us understand the issue, our...
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