International Longevity Centre - UK

A Life Course Approach to Tackling Obesity

This policy brief is the third and final publication of a series focusing on policies addressing obesity in the UK. Ultimately, ‘obesity policy’ is about behaviour, and the ability of policymakers to influence the choices and behaviour of individuals.

27 June 2008

The Age of Inheritance

Research exploring changing patterns of inheritance transfers in the UK. The research looks at how receipt of inheritance varies by age and socioeconomic group, and analyses the expectations of older cohorts for leaving an inheritance in the future.

07 May 2008

Navigating the Age of Inheritance

A discussion paper accompanying 'The Age of Inheritance' and exploring what this research means for public policy including inheritance tax, the property market and debate on how to pay for an ageing population.

07 May 2008

Obesity and Public Health Policy: Lessons from Tobacco Control

Two of the most challenging public heath problems that account for significant morbidity and mortality are smoking and obesity. Over the last 20 years, while smoking prevalence rates have declined, obesity rates have increased sharply.

15 April 2008

A National Care Fund for Long-term Care - A Policy Brief

This policy brief accompanies the publication of 'A National Care Fund for Long-term Care', and summarises the key points of this discussion paper for policymakers.

26 February 2008

A National Care Fund for Long-term Care

This discussion paper puts forward a radical new vision for funding older people’s long-term care - one of the UK's biggest public policy challenges.

26 February 2008

Making sense of the Age of Inheritance

Earlier this month, the ILC-UK published research about how patterns of inheritance are changing. The research, which was undertaken in partnership with NatCen and made possible by a grant from Norwich Union, shows what many people would suspect: average bequests received are increasing. What perhaps is unexpected, and certainly suprised us, is the rate of increase: an increase of over [...]

A National Care Fund to pay for older people’s long-term care?

The issue of how to fund older people’s long-term care is one of the trickiest problems confronting policymakers. The only agreement is that reform is needed, and that demand for care will increase in coming decades.  Models of state-funded universal free care for older people have usually dominated debate. However, after a decade of rising [...]

Successful Aging: Is Social Interaction the Key?

At last night’s event, research findings which show that even the ‘older old’ (those 75 years and older) can age successful were presented. But what was meant by successful aging? Those indivdiuals who were found to be aging successfully had high mental quality of life but low physical quality of life.  That is, the ‘older [...]

Vacancy for Senior Researcher at the ILC-UK

The ILC-UK is looking for an experienced quantitative researcher to undertake complex analysis of social surveys.

18 April 2008

New European Web Resource for Mental Health Advocacy

A new resource for mental health advocacy in Europe, www.ImpleMENTIS.eu, is now operational and being used by mental health advocacy groups around the world.

17 October 2007