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Tomorrow's world: the future of ageing in the UK: planning tomorrow today
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- London
Using data featured in the expert testimony delivered at the 2015 Future of Ageing conference, this report describes the future challenges and opportunities posed by an ageing population. It sets out some of the key themes which emerged from the conference, namely: the future population profile; the future of health and care in an ageing society; individual and societal wealth in an ageing society; work in an ageing society; and housing in an ageing society. The report argues that society is not adequately responding to ageing today. Instead, the social care system appears to be crumbling and health care is failing to incentivise the prevention of ill health; the housing and planning system is failing to respond to ageing, resulting in people living in housing which does not meet their needs; and individuals are currently underestimating their life expectancy and risking running out of money in retirement. The report proposes ten long-term indicators of progress, which include: health must find a way to be more responsive and preventative; Government must make progress in delivering a long term settlement to pay for social care; savings levels for working age adults must increase; average age of exit from the workforce should rise; the number and type of homes built should be increasingly appropriate for an ageing society; Government should make progress in facilitating greater risk sharing in accumulation and decumulation of retirement income; older consumers must become more informed; aspirations for retirement must be about much more than just spending more hours watching television; businesses should better respond to ageing; and the social contract between young and old must be strengthened. (Edited publisher abstract)