The Modelling Ageing Populations to 2030 (MAP2030) End of Project Conference was held at LSE on the 17th June 2010. This ESRC-funded study is concerned with assessing the needs and resources of older people up to 2030 and improving understanding of the causes and consequences of these trends, especially to inform public debate and the development of future long-term care and pensions policy.

A copy of the presentations from the day is available here.

Seminar series

March 2009: Reform of the long-term care financing system: projections of costs and distributional impacts

May 2009: EAPs/MAP2030 Workshop on the Future of Family Support for Older People

June 2009: ILC-UK and Actuarial Profession Joint Seminar: Public Spending and the Effect of Changes in Life Expectancy

September 2009: Disability in later life: causes, consequences and future prospects

Conferences

The New Dynamics of Ageing Launch Conference on 1st November 2006 was attended by several members of the MAP2030 team. The event included a number of speakers and there were presentations by the two collaborative research teams funded in the first call – MAP2030 and a team led by Professor Sara Arber at the University of Surrey. Professor Ruth Hancock presented an overview of the MAP2030 Research Programme. A copy of the presentation entitled Modelling Needs and Resources of Older People to 2030 (MS PowerPoint) is available.

The MAP2030 team presented their research at the one-day meting of the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences on 16th June 2008. The theme for the day was “Future needs and resource of the older population in Britain,” particularly in relation to pensions and long-term care. Six members of the team (Professors Mike Murphy, Emily Grundy, Carol Jagger and Ruth Hancock and Linda Pickard and Adam Steventon) gave presentations covering preliminary findings from the five Work Packages. Abstracts and/or presentations are available for download from the BSPS website at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/.

Introductory seminar

The introductory seminar for stakeholders was held at the LSE on 24th April 2007. The day was a great success and provided the MAP2030 group with lots of ideas about the types of policy scenarios that stakeholders would find useful to have modelled and also the types of outputs. A questionnaire that was distributed to participants to help guide discussion about policy options to cover funding of pensions, funding of long-term care and patterns of care (including scenarios involving assistive technology and the balance between formal and informal care) is available at Questionnaire on policy options for modelling (Word). If you were not able to attend the seminar but would like to contribute to this discussion, then please download a copy of the questionnaire and return to Juliette Malley by 11 May 2007.

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