Tag: Retirement

3 October 2019

Kay Scorah

We in the so-called rich world are grappling with how to recast our societies to move beyond the obsolete learn-earn-retire-in-your-prime model of life. Deepest hat tip to Professors Andrew Scott […]
19 September 2019

Peter Mangan

There’s a silent but alarming epidemic of loneliness and social isolation across the rich world across all ages. The World Health Organization now lists lack of social support networks as […]
5 September 2019

Martin Hyde

This time on The Big Middle, we’re homing in on the intersection of rapid population ageing and globalisation – the two biggest social transformations of our times. How does the […]
28 March 2019

Marc Freedman

Search How to Live Forever online and you’ll get one billion 30 million hits – most about conquering disease and death, the mind-blowing efforts of longevity scientists. My guest is […]
21 February 2019

Wilf Blackburn

This is the second episode from this month’s Longevity Leaders conference in London – the first of its kind. Think of the conference as the equivalent of the World Economic […]
7 February 2019

Elizabeth White

When my job disappeared in my 50s, I didn’t worry. I’d been a good saver, the future was exciting, unknown – let the next adventure begin. I hadn’t even heard […]
6 December 2018

Chip Conley

Hotelier. Author. Social Alchemist. Disruptor. Student. Sage. Modern Elder. That’s how my guest Chip Conley introduces himself on his website. Click into it and you find this quote: “Young enough […]
26 October 2018

Thank you AGE Platform EU

Big thanks to Estelle and the team at the #Ageing Equal campaign of @Age-PlatformEU for the lovely write-up of the podcast. Great to be in such good company raising our […]
25 October 2018

John Tarnoff

Time was, as recently as 1900, you were a heartbeat away from your coffin if you were lucky to make it to 50. Now, even a rare, fantasy retirement on […]
18 October 2018

Andrew Scott

Patchy at best, must do better – the report-card phrases that fit when assessing how government and big business are responding to the social revolution of healthy, longer lives. On […]