Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with Twitter
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
Eternal youth has been a human preoccupation for millennia. But what would happen if we could actually halt the ageing process? No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Radical ideas with the potential to revolutionise the current approach to long-term care are being funded by the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board. The successful projects include 'Flourish: Inspirational aging', which focuses on on reframing the concept of need, moving away from a care system that concentrates on providing physical support towards one that focuses on positive wellbeing. Flourish is a collaboration between Digital Laundry, Northumbria University, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York; ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford; and Cedilla Publishing.
ESRC's insight:
The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford is funded by the ESRC. |
Scoop.it!
Changes in pension and employment policies are making it increasingly necessary for older people in the UK to work beyond the age of 65.
ESRC's insight:
This article cites data from the ESRC-funded Understanding Society. |
Article cites the the Centre for Population Change (CPC), which was established in January 2009. Funded by the ESRC, it is the UK's first research centre on population change.