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The Ageing Heroes

The House of Lord's Select Committee today declared the UK is "woefully underprepared for an ageing society" and that the NHS will need "radical reform" to cope with the demands of an ageing population in the future. They're not wrong.

14.03.2013

Innovation: are we ready for it to be a part of our DNA?

I visited Denmark a few weeks ago as part of the Bruce Lockhart Scholarship piece for the Local Government Challenge.

11.03.2013

Five Hours a Day

What would you do with an extra five hours a day? Have a lie in; catch up on work; go on a big night out?

27.02.2013

A new Californian gold rush

I was in San Francisco last week at the Encore.org conference - a meeting of a couple of hundred Boomers over 50 all committed to achieving social change in the second half of their lives.

22.02.2013

The next phase of public service reform: people helping people

The results of the first Community Life survey were published with little fanfare earlier this month.  We can't draw conclusions from one data point, but it felt significant that three quarters of the population described themselves as having volunteered in the past year.

21.02.2013

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