ageing society Articles

Ben Shimshon responds to Parmjit Dhanda's article, 2020 vision The 2015 general election is one of the least predictable in decades. One near-certainty, however, is that older generations will turn out at a higher rate than younger members of the electorate. And as...

Labour needs to plan now for the Britain of 2020, writes Parmjit Dhanda Five years ago, when we lost the general election, including my bellwether seat of Gloucester, our kids were very young. Zac was four, Max had just turned one. Our infants’ experience of five...

Last week the government announced new plans for social care funding. Responding to Andrew Dilnot’s recommendations, Jeremy Hunt set a cap of £75,000 on people’s contributions to the costs of their care, and raised the ‘asset threshold’ to £123,000. It means that from...

We are all living longer, but the full implications of this are only beginning to dawn on us, and nowhere is this more apparent than with social care. In the UK the number of people aged 65 and over are projected to rise by nearly 50 per cent in the next 20 years,...