47th British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, Manchester, 4th – 6th July 2018
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Very pleased to meet you, NICOLA: understanding ageing in Northern Ireland
Monday 27 November 2017 marked a new beginning for gerontology in Northern Ireland, with the launch of key findings from …
Reversing retirement
It is surprisingly common for retirees to reverse their retirement: New research from a cross-research council funded consortium led by Professor Karen Glaser at King’s College London suggests that up to one quarter of Britons have been “unretiring” in recent years. However, not everybody has the same opportunities to unretire: those who are already well-favoured may find it easier to supplement their pension income with paid work in retirement. In this blog post, Dr. Loretta Platts, lead author of this paper, explains more.
Scrapping the Pensions Triple Lock? Time to re-frame the debate.
Over the weekend, the Work and Pensions Select Committee called on the government to scrap the pensions triple lock, framing it …
Pensions and the triple lock – some context for the debate
I’ve been listening for the last two days to heated debate about the triple lock for State Pensions, with two …
Ethnicity and pensions: a continuing disadvantage?
Individuals from certain minority ethnic groups in the UK, such as those from a Pakistani and Bangladeshi background, are among …
The Incoherence Now Underlying UK Pensions Policy
Originally posted on gerontologyuk:
Pensions policy in the UK has become remarkably incoherent. We are bombarded with pension reforms, but…
Pensions: Advice? Guidance? Does it Matter?
Originally posted on gerontologyuk:
I attended the excellent Pensions Play Pen monthly pensions discussion today, the group founded and generally…
Longer working lives, health and well-being
In recent years, popular media and policy discourse in the UK has been replete with discussion and debate about the …
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 …
