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Foresight for an Industrial Strategy Grand Challenge

Posted by: Charlotte Bright, Posted on: 19 July 2018 - Categories: Ageing

How the Foresight ageing project supported development of the Industrial Strategy Ageing Society Grand Challenge The PM recently announced the first Ageing Society Grand Challenge mission. She set us the challenge of ensuring everyone enjoys five extra healthy, independent years …

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Working collaboratively across government departments

Posted by: Fiona Thom, Posted on: 10 July 2017 - Categories: Ageing
The charts show the proportion of males and females in the population at a single age from 50 to 70 who are either employed, unemployed or inactive. The proportion of males and females that are inactive increases with age.

How the Government Office for Science helped my team to develop the government’s approach to fuller working lives.

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Materials to help you plan for population ageing

Posted by: Rebecca Jones, Posted on: 21 June 2017 - Categories: Ageing

Download and use our workshop materials to understand how population ageing will impact your area of interest.

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How will an ageing population change the way we work?

Posted by: Charles Jans, Posted on: 15 February 2017 - Categories: Ageing
Employment rate by type of employment and by age in the UK, 2014. There is a sharp decline in employment rate from around 52 years for people who are employees. There is a gentler decline in the employment rate of self-employed people from about the same age.

Our working lives are becoming longer as the UK population ages.

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Data for our future selves

Posted by: Professor Jeremy Myerson, Posted on: 10 February 2017 - Categories: Ageing
2D visualisation of Figure 7.2 from Foresight's Future of an Ageing population project report. The chart shows how horizons shrink for the over 70s with fewer miles travelled, and how commuting falls away the older you get.

How Foresight data has found its way into a national design museum.

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A new approach to understanding Scotland's ageing population

Posted by: Alison Griffin, Posted on: 5 January 2017 - Categories: Ageing
A cartoon of Bill, a fictional 72 year old in 2040.

How an evidence ‘safari’ helped us to think about the policy issues facing the ageing Scottish population.

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