Responding to ageing demographics: A positive view from a public administration and public policy perspective.

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Event Name	Responding to ageing demographics: A positive view from a public administration and public policy perspective.
Start Date	Mar 28, 2019 12:00 pm
End Date	Mar 28, 2019 1:00 pm
Duration	1 hour
Description	Interested guests are always welcome, from within or outside of the university! No registration is needed if you are internal, please just join us. If you are external to the University, please just send us an email to let us know you will be joining us, and we will inform our reception desk to expect you. Contact and further information: Research Manager for the School of Business, email: busresearch@lsbu.ac.uk This week's seminar presentation will be given by Professor Alex Murdock, Emeritus Professor in the School of Business. To give you a taste of the session, a brief abstract can be found below: The focus of this paper will be to try and redress the perception of ageing as a social challenge which is generally the line taken in public policy literature in particular the focus on resources such as pension pressures, workforce challenges and social and medical care. Rather this paper will examine what has been variously described as ‘active ageing’ or ‘positive ageing’ and identify trends in the lifestyles of the increasing older generation. In effect the paper will explore the concept of an ageing demographic as representing an ‘opportunity’ rather than a ‘challenge’. (Vincent 1996, Walker 2008, Zaidi et al 2017). The trends will be explored in the context of both public policy and public choice and will include lifelong learning, a redefinition of ‘retirement’ away from a date to a graduated transition, the importance of technology and the likely and emerging changing lifestyle choices of the ‘baby boomers’ and successive generations. (Hyde and Phillip-son 2015, Damant and Knapp 2015, Withnall 2015). The methodology will draw on major studies such as the UK Foresight project and OECD studies and will access the growing literature on positive and active ageing.

Event Name

Responding to ageing demographics: A positive view from a public administration and public policy perspective.

Start Date

Mar 28, 2019 12:00 pm

End Date

Mar 28, 2019 1:00 pm

Duration

1 hour

Description

Interested guests are always welcome, from within or outside of the university! No registration is needed if you are internal, please just join us. If you are external to the University, please just send us an email to let us know you will be joining us, and we will inform our reception desk to expect you. Contact and further information: Research Manager for the School of Business, email: busresearch@lsbu.ac.uk

This week's seminar presentation will be given by Professor Alex Murdock, Emeritus Professor in the School of Business. To give you a taste of the session, a brief abstract can be found below:

The focus of this paper will be to try and redress the perception of ageing as a social challenge which is generally the line taken in public policy literature in particular the focus on resources such as pension pressures, workforce challenges and social and medical care. Rather this paper will examine what has been variously described as ‘active ageing’ or ‘positive ageing’ and identify trends in the lifestyles of the increasing older generation. In effect the paper will explore the concept of an ageing demographic as representing an ‘opportunity’ rather than a ‘challenge’. (Vincent 1996, Walker 2008, Zaidi et al 2017).

The trends will be explored in the context of both public policy and public choice and will include lifelong learning, a redefinition of ‘retirement’ away from a date to a graduated transition, the importance of technology and the likely and emerging changing lifestyle choices of the ‘baby boomers’ and successive generations. (Hyde and Phillip-son 2015, Damant and Knapp 2015, Withnall 2015). The methodology will draw on major studies such as the UK Foresight project and OECD studies and will access the growing literature on positive and active ageing.