


Can digital play a role in social care?
Why digital social care?
A 2016 government report projects that nearly one in seven people in the UK will be over 75 years old by 2040, nearly 10 million compared with just 5 million in 2019. This is a vast pool of experience and wisdom.…

Positive blueprints for health: why we need real alternatives, not just restrictions.
Are health restrictions helpful?
Don’t eat sugary food. Don’t eat fatty food. Don’t be lazy. Don’t drink alcohol. Don’t use the car. The list of restrictions for leading a healthy life goes on. But is it actually helpful? Rather…

The health lottery – nobody gets the jackpot in unequal societies
"Today, the UK is a wealthy society. Yet a baby girl born in Richmond upon Thames is expected to live 17.8 more years in good health than a baby girl born in Manchester" published the Health Foundation in their What makes us health quick…

Thriving, not surviving – why the absence of illness is not enough.
“She lived a long and disease-free life, completely lacking in vitality and satisfaction” – few would aspire to this epitaph. Yet when we think about health our definition often extends only to a lack of illness into old age. We have…