Life stages and intergenerationality
Paul Lindley and Anne Longfield explain why they’ve launched the Raising the Nation Play Commission, which is urgently needed after a decade’s absence of a vision for optimising children’s opportunities to play.…Read more
Michael Toze, editor of 'Trans and Gender Diverse Ageing in Care Contexts', brings together the issues of ageing and gender diversity. …Read more
Catherine Needham considers what social care means in the UK and Australia. With elderly and disabled people more and more isolated, opportunities inaccessible and eligibility criteria increasingly exclusive, we need to rediscover the ‘social’ in social care.…Read more
Mel Hall and Jenny van Hooff consider the emphasis society places on whether or not women have children. Mothers and childfree women are pitted against each other, rather than common ground being shared. …Read more
As we launch the Journal of Global Ageing, Martin Hyde explains why we urgently need to redress gaps in our knowledge of global population ageing.…Read more
Emma Moormann, Anna Smajdor and Daniela Cutas discuss epigenetics and ask, if environmental factors can influence our gene expression and cell functioning, who is responsible for protecting our health? …Read more
Anton McLean, author of 'Educational Collateral Damage', examines why socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils continue to get a poor deal.…Read more
Sally Stapley and Claire Pentecost reveal the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on family carers of dementia patients. …Read more
This briefing, based on the new book Community Work, by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester and Ed Garrett, is about how important theory is to policy and practice, especially when we as practitioners are concerned with issues such as poverty and working towards social justice.…Read more
Liz Loyde, author of Unpaid Care Policies in the UK, shows the role and purpose of policies on unpaid care and their place within the wider context of health and social care policies over the past three decades.…Read more