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Dusting off Foresight’s obesity report

Posted by: Professor Susan Jebb OBE, Posted on: 4 October 2017 - Categories: Obesity

Professor Susan Jebb on what’s changed since Foresight published their report on Obesity 10 years ago, and what we can still learn from it.

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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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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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Why housing matters for the future of an ageing population

Posted by: Stephen Bennett, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: Ageing, Fast facts
Infographic shows that housing costs the NHS £1.4 to 2.5 billion, an amount comparable to the costs for physical inactivity; overweight and obesity; smoking; and alcohol intake.

Seven facts that explain why housing will be critical for the ageing UK population. The Foresight future of an ageing population project analysed the main challenges that result from the...

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Mapping the ageing population

Posted by: Henry Green, Posted on: 21 October 2016 - Categories: Ageing
A screenshot that shows stylised maps and bar charts as a visual example of Foresight's new online mapping tool.

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...

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Design for an ageing population

Posted by: Cat Drew and Stephen Bennett, Posted on: 19 October 2016 - Categories: Ageing
The image shows a Padio, a cuboid, wooden interface for tablet computers.

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.

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