United Kingdom and Ageing
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- Age discrimination - a way of determining rights and abilities based on stereotypes?
- S. Charters / International Federation on Ageing, 2008
- Discrimination on grounds of age tends to invoke less public revulsion than acts of racial or gender discrimination, as it is considered less likely to be based on malicious intent. While this assertion about intent may be true in cer...
- There is still time to reform pension systems if governments act now
- J.P. Martin; E. Whitehouse / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2008
- Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase sign...
- Taking life expectancy into account to protect pension schemes
- D. Blake; J. Pickles / Pensions Institute, 2008
- This report has been prepared for finance directors of organisations with significant defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities. The authors argue that longevity risk - the risk that pension scheme members will live materially longer t...
- How to effectively communicate pension forecasts
- W. Sykes; A. Hedges; J. Kelly / UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, 2008
- This report is the result of a project commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which aimed to enrich understanding of people’s responses to pension forecasts. It focuses on exploring the knowledge, beliefs, at...
- How transparent are the largest 20 UK pension funds?
- FairPensions, 2007
- There is, this report argues, increasing UK public interest in the accountability of investors. The 20 occupational pension funds examined in this report are of particular public interest because they together own over £292 bill...
- How to design the optimal DC pension plan
- D. Blake; A. Cairns; K. Dowd / Pensions Institute, 2008
- The current design of Defined Contribution pension plans, this report argues, is inadequate for a number of reasons: members are required to make very complex investment choices without having the financial literacy to...
- Sharing skills, knowledge and experience between old and young
- A. Hatton-Yeo (ed); T. Ohsako (ed) / UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2008
- Intergenerational programmes are vehicles for the purposeful and ongoing exchange of resources and learning among older and younger generations. This monograph presents the results of collaborative cross-country research and aims to a...
- Loneliness for the elderly leads to severe social exclusion and vice versa
- Dr. P. Demakakos / Age UK, 2008
- This report is Age Concern’s interpretation of the University College London's (UCL) analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA). Studies suggest that the older someone is, the more likely they are to b...
- Living arrangements, health and well-being in Europe
- H. Young; E. Grundy / Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2007
- This paper examines the association between living arrangements, health and well-being across Europe, looking at England and Wales in particular. It aims to: analyse associations between living arrangements and health a...
- Perspectives on the challenges of ageing societies on human rights
- International Longevity Centre, 2007
- This booklet is a compilation of reports from the United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Dominican Republic, Israel, India, Japan, Netherlands, Argentina and the USA. Each considers the rights and entitlements of the aged in the respec...
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