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Our future care needs

What does an ageing population mean for care, jobs, and communities?

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In our first episode of 2025, we look at the future care needs of an aging population in the UK, with Taha Bokhari and Abby Jitendra from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who have written a report about what our ageing population means for care, work, our benefits system and our communities.

What else is Understanding Society doing?

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I will survive – can art make us healthy?

Evidence from Understanding Society supports claims that the arts are good for our health.

09 Mar 2026

New briefing note: Growth with purpose

Understanding Society outlines policy ideas for productivity and fairness.

03 Mar 2026

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Barriers to Opportunity report published

The new Insights report sifts through the latest evidence on how children and young people are doing, and the factors influencing their life chances

26 Feb 2026

Children’s Society: young people’s wellbeing significantly lower

Children’s Society outlines significant decline in children’s happiness with their life as a whole

25 Feb 2026

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