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	<title>International Longevity Centre - UK</title>
	<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk</link>
	<description>a think-tank impacting policy on longevity, ageing and population change</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Park-home Living – A Lifestyle Choice for Retirement?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/30/park-home-living-%e2%80%93-a-lifestyle-choice-for-retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece of research highlighted in the August edition of Ageing and Society considers why a growing number of older people are choosing park-home living. The research, a study of 40 park-home residents, by Mark Bevan of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York, notes that around 160,000 people live in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Surprising Truth Behind Intergenerational Happiness</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/27/the-surprising-truth-behind-intergenerational-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked neatly away in the top hand corner of the Sunday Observer magazine was the UK’s ‘life satisfaction scale’. According to this bar chart and indeed several other studies, wellbeing across the lifespan is ‘U-Shaped’. Happiness levels are moderate to high in our late teens and early twenties, plummet in our mid 40’s and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese at 5 Years Old; What Hope to Work Until 70?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/27/obese-at-5-years-old-what-hope-to-work-until-70/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/27/obese-at-5-years-old-what-hope-to-work-until-70/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Marks and Spencer have announced the launch of “plus size” school uniforms for overweight or obese primary school children [1]. The retailer says it has taken this step to meet the demands of some parents. The plus size uniforms cater for ages three to six, and will be sold on-line on a trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrot and Stick Approach Necessary to Tackle Digital Exclusion</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/14/carrot-and-stick-approach-necessary-to-tackle-digital-exclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/14/carrot-and-stick-approach-necessary-to-tackle-digital-exclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Martha Lane-Fox this week published the Race Online 2012 Manifesto for a Networked Nation(1). It’s a report with a large number of recommendations to inspire, encourage and support individuals to go online. 
Martha makes a compelling case as to why we should all be online: The internet benefits us as consumers; helps us gain employment opportunities; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILC-UK @ BSG: Does Healthy Ageing Have a Cultural Lens</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/14/does-healthy-ageing-have-a-cultural-lens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We use the term “healthy ageing” quite often, but what does it mean and does that meaning have a cultural lens? The EU funded project “HealthyAgeing” developed the following broad definition:
“Healthy ageing is the process of optimising equal opportunities for health in order to enable older people to take an active part in society and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog: Andrea Rozario – Director General of Ship</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/guest-blog-andrea-rozario-%e2%80%93-director-general-of-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/guest-blog-andrea-rozario-%e2%80%93-director-general-of-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You can hardly open a newspaper without being confronted by the issue of insufficient retirement savings and the effects that increased longevity has on this issue.  Whether it is the Daily Mail “A Generation in Denial”, City AM “Golden Years of Retirement Turn Sour“ or - the somewhat more subdued - Financial Times “Insurer Warns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILC-UK @ BSG - Community Design and Fear</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/ilc-uk-bsg-communities-%e2%80%93-community-design-and-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/ilc-uk-bsg-communities-%e2%80%93-community-design-and-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At last week’s British Society of Gerontology conference, Liesbeth De Donder of Vrije Universiteit Brussels presented new Belgian research on the relationship of the build environment to feelings of insecurity.  
The research presented the results of a survey of over 26,000 people and sought to look at a broader picture of fear in the community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILC-UK @ BSG – Sleep in Old Age</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/ilc-uk-at-bsg-%e2%80%93-sleep-in-old-age/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/12/ilc-uk-at-bsg-%e2%80%93-sleep-in-old-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebekah Luff of the University of Surrey presented new research on somnia at last week’s British Society of Gerontology conference.
She presented striking findings of a postal survey distributed by GPs on the sleeping patterns of older people. The research showed that around half of older respondents were clinically poor sleepers(1).
Whilst the research found that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILC-UK @ BSG – The Impact of Extra Care on Frailty and Social Resources</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/09/ilc-uk-bsg-%e2%80%93-the-impact-of-extra-care-on-frailty-and-social-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/09/ilc-uk-bsg-%e2%80%93-the-impact-of-extra-care-on-frailty-and-social-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Nash and Vanessa Burholt of the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Swansea University presented new research on extra care housing at this week’s British Society of Gerontology conference. Based on their study of residents in extra care housing, residential care facilities, and people receiving community care, they presented findings on incidences of frailty in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILC-UK @ BSG – Older People’s Transport Needs: Issues of Design and Access</title>
		<link>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/08/ilc-uk-bsg-%e2%80%93-older-people%e2%80%99s-transport-needs-issues-of-design-and-access/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ilcuk.org.uk/2010/07/08/ilc-uk-bsg-%e2%80%93-older-people%e2%80%99s-transport-needs-issues-of-design-and-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Freeland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Society of Gerontology conference, held this week at Brunel University, featured several papers on transport needs – particularly the role of the car in older people’s well-being.  
Graham Parkhurst and Ian Shergold of the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of West England considered the existence and function of ‘mobility capital’. [...]]]></description>
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