Ageing. Aging. With or without an “e”, no matter how you spell the word, it amounts to the same process for us all; it’s the healthy part that’s the variant global challenge. In December 2020, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing and as we enter the 4th year you
In the field of ageing and longevity, as with most concepts and models, trends and terminology seem to have arrived suddenly as news to some, such as AgeTech which grew up from the origins of gerontechnology in the 1980’s. So too it is with Social Prescribing, which according to legend had its origins also in
As a somewhat newcomer to the dialogue on Social Prescribing a little over two years ago at the November 2021 International Federation on Ageing conference, I have since followed this concept with great interest and fervour. With no shortage of outlets to discuss, learn and advocate among colleagues in the field of aging and longevity,
In the first post of this series A Housing Agenda for Generations I began stating that housing – a shortage or non-existence of, affordability of, or location of, not to mention dislocation of – is a complex social issue in varying degrees of distress for low, middle and high income countries, hitting a crescendo in