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 This report summarises a public debate on the "Future of Age" 16 July 2010 |
 Looking back over a decade of ILC-UK, and forward to the future of ageing and demographic change 14 July 2010 |
 This ILC-UK discussion paper considers the challenge presented to workplace relations and employment rights by the extending working lives agenda. 09 July 2010 |
 This ILC-UK discussion paper considers the reasons people retire when they do, and the potential future of retirement given policy change and the emergence of gradual retirement. 16 June 2010 |
 On Monday 22nd February, the International Longevity Centre, UK (ILC-UK) invited a number of stakeholders interested in pensions issues, to a dinner debate, sponsored by Aviva to discuss pension reform and saving. 16 April 2010 |
 This report summarises two public debates on "The Economic Value of Healthy Ageing and Working Longer" 13 April 2010 |
A new piece of research highlighted in the August edition of Ageing and Society considers why a growing number of older people are choosing park-home living. The research, a study of 40 park-home residents, by Mark Bevan of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York, notes that around 160,000 people live in [...] |
Tucked neatly away in the top hand corner of the Sunday Observer magazine was the UK’s ‘life satisfaction scale’. According to this bar chart and indeed several other studies, wellbeing across the lifespan is ‘U-Shaped’. Happiness levels are moderate to high in our late teens and early twenties, plummet in our mid 40’s and then [...] |
Responding to the Government’s announcement of the abolition of the Default Retirement Age, Baroness Sally Greengross, Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre-UK said: 29 July 2010 |
The June edition of the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) newsletter. 17 June 2010 |

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