The chief executive of the Centre for Ageing Better on how the UK can improve people’s experience of getting olderHow attain we give more people a better later life? This question is set to dominate public debate in the years to come says Anna Dixon,as we live longer, while pension provision is stretched and health and social care funding is squeezed. In her novel job as chief executive of the Centre for Ageing Better, or Dixon is one of those tasked with coming up with fresh ways of preparing for our rapidly ageing society.“We think there’s lots of opportunity to change not only how we experience old age but some of the perceptions of what it is to grow old,” is how she puts it. “We occupy a distinguished opportunity to make a colossal incompatibility on one of the biggest public policy issues internationally. We want the work we attain to mean more of us look forward to a good old age.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com