Population ageing and urbanisation: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ‘ageing in place’ in cities
Understanding the relationship between population ageing and urban change is now a major issue for public policy and research. The …
Category Archives: Sustainability
Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care
Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …
‘Gerontology is good for you… so is gardening’
In preparing to address a room packed with enthusiastic gardeners, community activists and gerontologists at the latest BSG NI event, …
Let’s stop the ill informed language of intergenerational conflict, time for generational cohesion
Two interesting things happened today. The Office for National Statistics published data showing that we now have, for the first …
What makes an ageing community sustainable?
I recently participated in an event organised by the Green Light Festival on sustainable ageing communities at De Montfort University …
BSG/ILC-UK Thinkpiece – Climate Change and Sustainable Public Services – 18 July 2011
I attended a very interesting seminar yesterday at the House of Lords exploring the impact of environmental change in the …
Ageing Issues 