Sustainable Development For All Ages

...if we are to have any hope of achieving this new vision, robust new metrics, fed by nothing less than a data revolution, will be critical.
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Disrupt Aging: The Global Imperative

...it is time to coalesce around the progress we have made and create a movement to “disrupt aging”—that is, to change the conversation about what it means to grow older.
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Wealth of Generations

At the Commission for Financial Capability, we seek to understand, and we actively ask ourselves, what does a wealthy life mean for New Zealanders of all ethnicities?
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UNV and AARP Share Values, Working to Influence Positive Change and Improve Lives

In 2012, UNV’s Online Volunteering service enabled hundreds of non-profit development organizations to benefit from the support of 11,000 individuals from 169 countries over the Internet.
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Buurtzorg Nederland: Nurses Leading the Way!

"What started as a team of 4 nurses in 2006, has grown to 580 teams of 6,500 nurses in 2013. "
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Working Caregivers in the United States

"68 percent of caregivers surveyed had to make work accommodations such as taking time off, coming in late, leaving early, refusing a promotion, reducing work hours, changing jobs or quitting."
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Sharing Lessons from Europe in Financing and Delivery of Long Term Support Services

"...unlike health care, LTCSS insurance is a case of incomplete welfare-related insurance as people fail to purchase insurance when its optimal to do so, leaving people in need of care to rely on public support, if and when available, or, if affordable, to self-insure."
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Newsmaker Interview with Burak Cakmak: Designing for Social Impact

Because fashion is so intimately bound with questions related to the body, fashion design programs have a unique opportunity to go into depth to create garments for those with functional and physical limitations.
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Redesigning the Course of Our Lives

Instead of a straight line from education to work to retirement, imagine a life course with loops and curves, as phases shift back and forth, sometimes repeating or overlapping in different ways.
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A Model Pension Scheme in Africa

An assessment of the impact in Zanzibar is still ongoing, but initial discussions with older people suggest that the scheme is having a substantial positive impact on older people and their families.
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