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AI: Generating opportunities for long lives
We are living longer, but increasingly unhealthy, financially insecure and disconnected lives. Health systems are bursting at the seams. Economic inactivity is at a record high. And our places and communities aren’t adapted to long lives. Along comes AI… Taking industry and Government by storm, to what extent can AI help societies become ‘longevity-ready’ and adapt to an ageing society?
Our impact 2024 - ILCUK
ILC is the UK’s leading authority on the impact of longevity on society. We combine evidence, solutions and networks to make change happen. We help governments, policymakers, businesses and employers in the UK and across the world develop and implement solutions to ensure we all live happier, healthier and more fulfilling longer lives. Over the last year, we have: Published 12 policy reports and held 61 events in 14 countries across the world.
Matching the potential: Maximising the trade opportunities of healthy ageing
Countries across the world are ageing. There’s a huge business opportunity to invest in healthy ageing – but are governments and businesses responding fast enough? What’s the innovation landscape when it comes to healthy ageing? And how can businesses trade and scale up to match the potential? This piece of work, supported by UKRI, maps the opportunities for business, innovation and trade across the world.
Our impact - ILCUK
ILC is the UK’s leading authority on the impact of longevity on society We combine evidence, solutions and networks to make change happen. We help governments, policymakers, businesses and employers in the UK and across the world develop and implement solutions to ensure we all live happier, healthier and more fulfilling longer lives. Over the last decade, we have: Published 400+ policy reports and held 500+ events in 20 countries across the world.
ILC Strategy 2023-20
Baroness Sally Greengross set up ILC UK (ILC) 25 years ago. She had a vision of an organisation which looked at the future in the light of demographic change. She wanted to work as part of a global movement and focus on the impact of longevity on all ages not just older people. We are determined to deliver and build on Sally’s vision. Our strategy will help us do that. Governments and businesses increasingly recognise the importance of longevity.
Global Health Equity Requires Global Equity
Health EquityVol. 7, No. 1 PerspectiveOpen AccessCreative Commons license Abstract Many global health challenges are characterized by the inequitable patterning of their health and economic consequences, which are etched along the lines of pre-existing inequalities in resources, power, and opportunity. These links require us to reconsider how we define global health equity, and what we consider as most consequential in its pursuit.
Sally Greengross interview
This Summer, our Founder and Executive President Baroness Sally Greengross passed away. She was an inspiration to us all at ILC, both professionally and personally, and her legacy will continue to live on. Shortly before her passing, Sally was interviewed by David Brindle, a leading social policy journalist, to reflect on the 25 years of ILC, her life and vision for the future.
Health equals wealth: Maximising the longevity dividend across the G20 - Arabic version
We’ve become accustomed to ageing populations being presented as a bad thing. But far from being a cost or drain on public resources, older people’s social and economic impact is significant. But it could be much higher if we remove avoidable barriers to working, spending, caring and volunteering, with the most important being poor health. We know that countries that invest more in health see more people working, spending and volunteering and that investment in prevention drives a return.
Health equals wealth: Maximising the longevity dividend in India
At a glance: The longevity dividend in India: Nearly one in five (19%) of India’s population was aged 50 and over in 2018 – and this is set to increase to 1 in 4 (25%) by 2035. In India, more than half (51%) of people aged 50-69 were in employment in 2018. In India, people aged 65 and over spent (on average) 30 more hours volunteering than people at other ages. We’ve become accustomed to ageing populations being presented as a bad thing.
Health equals wealth: Maximising the longevity dividend in South Africa
At a glance: The longevity dividend in South Africa In 2018, 1 in 6 South Africans were aged 50 or over. By 2035, this could be more than 1 in 5. Across the G20, consumption by households led by those over 50 accounted for over 55% of all consumer spending. In South Africa, 49% of 50-64 year olds are still in employment (2018) If remunerated, the value of unpaid contributions by those aged 50 and over in South Africa, such as volunteering and caring, would account for over $600m.
Work for tomorrow: Can innovation support work in an ageing world?
Never before have Finance Ministers been as worried about ageing as now. Skills shortages driven by demographic change have hit all sectors of the economy. As workforces are ageing and workers of all ages are calling for a better offer, we need to rethink work to create healthy workplaces, support skills and learning, champion diversity and bring about flexibility. Over the last two years, we ran Work for tomorrow, supported by the Innovation Resource Center for HR.
Global Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index to be launched to track progress and drive action on healthy ageing
Over the coming year, the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) will create the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index, which will track, for the first time, how healthily countries across the G20 are living and ageing, and the impact on the economy and environment.
Work for tomorrow competition: Innovating for an ageing workforce
Work for tomorrow competition: Innovating for an ageing workforce
Nearly half of Japanese workers could be aged 50+ by 2035
Japan is one of the few ‘super-ageing’ societies across the world. Nearly half (47%) of the population is already aged 50 and over, and this is set to increase to 54% by 2035. A new report launched by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK) today at an event at the British Embassy in Tokyo highlights that as Japan’s population is ageing, older people are increasingly important to the economy as workers, spenders, volunteers and carers.
Health equals wealth - The economic impact of healthy ageing across Asia Pacific
A British Embassy Tokyo and ILC seminar Speakers include: Julia Longbottom CMG, British Ambassador to Japan (opening remarks) Sue Kinoshita, Minister-Counsellor for Economic Diplomacy, British Embassy Tokyo Tokio Ozawa, Deputy Assistant Minister, Ministry for Health, Labour and Welfare David Sinclair, Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre UK Ichiro Nakamura, Director, International Longevity Centre Japan (ILC-Japan) Hidenori Arai, President, National Center for Geriatrics and...
Baroness Sally Greengross
By: David Sinclair Twenty-five years ago, having just left Age Concern after 13 years as Director-General, Sally Greengross responded to the suggestion of her friend Robert Butler to create something entirely new: A think tank looking at the opportunities and challenges of longevity across the lifespan. At a time when many of us might have taken things easy, she became a Member of the House of Lords and set up a new organisation as part of a fledgling global network.
Levelling up: The great health challenge
In the UK, 94,000 people die from a smoking-related disease every year. Huge geographic and socioeconomic variation in smoking means health, life expectancy and economic inequality. Tackling smoking head-on remains a crucial step to meeting Government targets to extend healthy life expectancy and level up. However, our latest research highlights the need for greater Government ambition in health improvement measures.
We need you: Help us make the high street dementia friendly
We’re looking for ten people to join us on Monday, 13 June to help us design policy, practice and product solutions that will help make our high streets more dementia-friendly. We want to hear from empathetic people with a diverse range of professional and personal experiences who will enjoy spending a day focusing on solutions, not problems. While people with dementia report shopping as one of their favourite activities, the design of the high street sometimes makes it difficult.
Doctor's orders: Why adherence is critical to improving health outcomes across the life course
Nearly half of all adults and approximately 8% of children (aged 5-17) worldwide have a chronic condition. Yet, studies have consistently shown that adherence to medication is poor; estimates range from under 80% to under 50%, with an average of 50%. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that adherence to medication for chronic conditions is as low as 50% in developed countries and even lower in developing countries. Non-adherence is also expensive for governments.
A window of opportunity: Delivering prevention in an ageing world
There are clear health and economic benefits to investing in preventative healthcare throughout people’s lives. However, despite repeated commitments to prioritise prevention at the G20 level, and the creation of a joint task force involving finance and health ministers, action continues to lag. In an ageing world, this needs to change.
€125 billion lost each year across Europe due to non-adherence to medication
Nearly half of all adults worldwide have at least one chronic condition. Yet, adherence to medication for these conditions is as low as 50% in high-income countries and even lower in lower income countries. Non-adherence costs between $100 billion -$290 billion in the USA, €125 billion across Europe and AU$7 billion in Australia.
ILC response to Public Accounts Committee consultation on Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic
The following text formed ILC’s response to the Public Accounts Committee’s consultation on Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government on risk. You can download the final report, which includes a quote from this text, on the Committee’s website. I am responding to the Committee’s call for evidence on behalf of the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC), the UK’s specialist think tank on the impact of longevity on society.
Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall
Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess extent of the shortfall.
Social media can help improve vaccination rates, new research finds
New research from the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) finds that social media advertising can be a cost-effective way of engaging older people in deprived communities with vaccination. Previous research has found that older people are less likely to use social media than younger generations.
Generation Vax: Leveraging intergenerational relations to increase routine vaccination uptake
Previous research has found that older people are less likely to use social media than younger generations. As evidence suggests that younger people can influence the health behaviour of older relatives offline, we set out to test whether social media could be used to engage older people via their younger relatives using a large-scale targeted social media advertising campaign.
Think tank announces finalists of innovation competition responding to longer working lives
The International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) has today announced the finalists of Work for tomorrow, an international innovation competition looking at how employers can innovate to support longer working lives. Launched by ILC and supported by the Innovation Resource Center for Human Resources, Work for tomorrow is seeking to award the most promising innovations responding to an ageing workforce.
Roundtable: Enabling and protecting consumers with dementia
As part of our Spending with dementia project, we’re hosting a roundtable to understand the key challenges that people with dementia face as consumers. While people with dementia report shopping as one of their favourite activities, the design of the high street sometimes makes it difficult. From remembering a PIN number to accidentally shoplifting and from being exposed to scams to navigating around a town centre, research evidence suggests that our high street isn’t dementia friendly enough.
Boomers to zoomers: Do millennials really exist?
By Prof Les Mayhew and David Sinclair Policymakers, service providers and marketing folk alike love their generational labels. It’s proved useful as a way of collecting a group of people born and living at the same time. These groups are then assumed to have similar values, experiences, needs and wishes. But while the boomers can more easily be identified, later generational labels, imported from the US, are increasingly out of kilter with reality in the UK.
The Queen’s 70th Jubilee: We are better off today than we were but rising inequalities threaten to be a party pooper
Head of Global Research, ILC and Professor of Statistics, Bayes Business School Les joined ILC in October 2020 as Head of Global Research and will be working on a range of ILC research projects as well as enhancing our research approach and strategy. Les is also part-time Professor of Statistics at The Business School (formerly Cass), City University, London, and Managing Director of Mayhew Harper Associates Ltd.
Think tank urges European policy makers to act now to increase routine vaccination for citizens with chronic medical conditions
The Coalition for Life-course Immunisation (CLCI) and the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) urges policymakers, healthcare professionals and charities across the EU to address “concerningly low” vaccination uptake among Europeans living with chronic conditions. Published today, the Hitting new heights report calls for more action to ensure people at greater risk have better information and access to vaccination.
ILC responds to Government’s Levelling Up White Paper
Responding to the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper published today, David Sinclair, Director of the International Longevity Centre UK argues: “It is unacceptable that where you live in the UK impacts on how healthy you are, how long you will live and what job opportunities you might have.” “The Government must deliver a meaningful plan to meet its target of increasing healthy life expectancy by at least 5 years, while also reducing the gap in life expectancy between the richest and the...
One in every eight residents in housing providing care have witnessed discrimination from other residents, according to new research
New report from the University of Bristol and International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) finds that while most older people in housing with care feel valued and included, social isolation and discrimination remain a part of everyday life for some residents, especially those from social minorities.
State pension age increases not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’, argues think tank
In response to the current State Pension Age (SPA) review, the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) argues that SPA may need to rise faster than planned – to ensure fiscal sustainability, support intergenerational fairness and keep up with increases in life expectancy. Last month, the Government announced plans for the next SPA review. The current plan is to increase SPA from age 66 to age 67 between 2026 and 2028, and to age 68 between 2044 and 2046.
Not if but when: The demographic and fiscal case for increases to State Pension Age
In December 2021, the Government announced the latest review of State Pension Age (SPA). Currently, the state pension costs the Government over £100bn a year and has increased 3-fold since 2000. Any increase in the SPA could stop this cost from inflating even further, but to varying levels depending on how it is calculated.
Expected shortfall of 2.6 million workers in the UK by 2030, new research finds
New research published by the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) today projects that as a result of population ageing, COVID-19 and Brexit, the UK economy could see a shortfall of 2.6 million workers by 2030 – almost twice the workforce of the NHS. Amid continued labour market challenges, ILC calls on Government to develop a comprehensive Workforce Strategy to tackle future shortages.
Plugging the gap: Estimating the demand and supply of jobs by sector in 2030
Rough estimates suggest a further 2.7m jobs will be created in the UK by 2030. However, at the same time, the UK workforce is ageing rapidly, resulting in fewer people of working age to support an ageing economy. Although employment rates at older ages are on the rise thanks to government policies such as the scrapping of the default retirement age, there is a risk that the availability of older workers could be greatly diminished by poor health, part-time working, and skill shortages.
The changing face of ageing: From baby boom to baby bust
The UK population has been growing at the rate of 0.4% per cent annum. This presentation looks at the impact of baby boomers on population ageing; the increasing number of deaths from earlier baby booms; and the impact on the state pension age, housing market and inheritance
All I want for Christmas
By: The ILC Team We all have a friend or relative at Christmastime who protests “there’s nothing I want” then proceeds to spend a fortune on other people’s gifts. In this blog, we take a look at the generational divide in gift-giving at Christmas time, and whether ageism has a role in picking the presents under the tree. Hey, big spender… Older people have significant spending power.
Government urged to level-up healthy life expectancy through State Pension Age Review
Think tank argues Government must seek to level-up healthy life expectancy ahead of legislating to increase the State Pension Age to 68. Responding to the announcement of the Government’s plan to review the State Pension Age, David Sinclair, Director of the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC), argued: “COVID-19 has likely had an impact on life expectancy and certainly had an impact on the employment rates of older workers.
Might the fifteen-minute neighbourhood transform what we want from housing in old age?
By: David Sinclair, ILC In this blog David Sinclair, Director of ILCUK and member of the Housing & Ageing Alliance, considers the importance of the location of the home and the concept of the 15-minute neighbourhood. The relationship between the location of our home and the services we need is coming under sharper focus as a result of climate change, COVID-19, new technology, and the ability of more people to work from home.
Care and Employment Ministers to speak at ageing conference tomorrow
Minister for Employment, Mims Davies MP, and Minister for Care and Mental Health, Gillian Keegan MP, to speak at Future of Ageing conference in London tomorrow. Join the UK’s leading conference focussed on longevity, hosted by the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) – the UK’s specialist think tank on the impact of longevity on society – on Thursday, 2 December, to hear two Government Ministers discuss how policy and practice should adapt to the increasing diversity of our ageing population.
Future of Ageing 2021: How can we make work more age-friendly?
Lily Parsey, Global Policy and Influencing Manager at ILC, introduces our session at Future of Ageing 2021 on the future of work, where Minister for Employment, Mims Davies MP, will announce the shortlist of our Work for tomorrow competition. Get your tickets to the conference here. Find out more about the competition here.
Future of Ageing 2021: Reimagining relationships as we get older
Paul Goulden, Head of Partnerships at ILC, introduces our Future of Ageing session in which we’ll be challenging sterotypes around the nature of relationships as we get older. For more information on Future of Ageing and tickets, visit our conference page.
Challenging the old versus young dichotomy
By: Sir Vince Cable There is a better way of living than the assumed dichotomy between young versus old, working versus dependent, the striving and struggling young versus enforced idleness for pensioners. We suffer from a growing divide between generations, which is reflected in social attitudes and voting patterns. We need more integrated working and living. It has become a cliché to say that the UK is ageing.
Future of Ageing 2021: The future of preventative health post-pandemic
Arunima Himawan (Research Fellow, ILC) introduces our session: Healthier for longer: How has the pandemic impacted on the future of preventative health? For more information on Future of Ageing 2021 and tickets, visit our conference page.
Future of Ageing 2021: The future of consumption in a diverse ageing world
David Sinclair (Director, ILC) introduces the focus of our virtual pre-conference workshop: Building back the high street for a changing world. For more information on Future of Ageing 2021 and tickets, visit our conference page.
Time to Level-Up Healthy Life Expectancy
Government urged to set out plans for Independent State Pension Age Review Think tank argues Government must seek to level-up healthy life expectancy ahead of legislating to increase the State Pension Age to 68. The International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC) has urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to set out their plans for the 2022 Independent State Pension Age Review.
Longer lives significantly contributing to European economies, new reports find
Longer lives could be crucial in European pandemic recovery, argues think tank, as new reports highlight potential of healthy ageing strategies to unlock ‘longevity dividend’. A series of reports published by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) today highlights the economic opportunities of longer lives across Europe. According to the reports, older people’s contributions across the European region are significant, and growing: In Germany, 77% of people aged 50-64 are in employment.
Health equals wealth: Maximising the longevity dividend in France
At a glance: In France, people aged 50 and over already accounted for nearly 1 in 3 workers (30% of the workforce) in 2017 – this could rise to 33% by 2035. Nearly 6 out of every ten euros in the French economy were spent by households led by those aged over 50 in 2015. If remunerated, the value of unpaid contributions by those aged 50 and over in France, such as volunteering and caring, would account for 1.3% of GDP. We’ve become accustomed to ageing populations being presented as a bad thing.
European Commission must develop concerted response to ageing
ILC Europe Network launched to help societies address longevity and population ageing in positive and productive ways ILC Europe Network urge the Commission to develop an EU White Paper on Ageing that commits to making European policy and practice work for all ages. The European Commission must press ahead with plans to respond to the challenges and opportunities of an ageing Europe, argues the newly formed International Longevity Centre-Europe Network (ILC Europe Network).
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