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	<description>New Ideas for Old</description>
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		<title>Wrinkle alert! Switch off the telly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is little to add to the welter of commentary that has been written about Miriam O’Reilly since the former Countryfile presenter won her case for age discrimination against the BBC. Except….pretty much all the comment has supported O’Reilly, whose sacking is widely seen as an injustice, her stand brave and proper. The BBC has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do care home residents really want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethnography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Mulgan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Living Lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Roberts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this era of growing numbers of old people and little money, care home providers will always be aiming to supply their services more efficiently and cheaply. For the people on the receiving end, on the other hand, all that matters is quality of life. But in this relationship, they are definitely the vulnerable party  – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Normal service resumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Singer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Jacoby]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Normal service is about to resume &#8211; with apologies to anyone who noticed that Christmas has been quiet. In the meantime, here are some links: First, a piece I wrote for the Daily Telegraph, pegged to the news that nearly a fifth of people in the UK will live to be 100. Second, a New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The past is not another country</title>
		<link>http://agebomb.com/2010/12/07/the-past-is-not-another-country/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Rubin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heston Blumenthal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Many Happy Returns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reminiscence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Reed]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making conversation in a care home is hard work. The commonest opening gambit is probably, ‘What did you have for lunch?’ which is not a question to which the answer is going to be a) very interesting, unless Heston Blumenthal has popped in, or b) readily available to anyone with a cloudy memory, let alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older people want to shop shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Age UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sinclair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nternational Longevity Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Golden Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a paradox that older people make up a large and growing number of consumers – presenting a tremendous opportunity &#8211; yet they are almost entirely ignored by marketing executives. Over-50s need and want to buy stuff like anyone else, but some 90% of marketing spend is directed at younger people. A report out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of carers and careers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health & Social Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre for Social Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iain Duncan Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interim Review of Older Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ippr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘The most serious social policy issue in decades,’ is how the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) describes the ageing population and, in particular, its need for social care. Yet there&#8217;s quite astonishing apathy when it comes to planning for what&#8217;s about to hit us &#8211; the 1.7 million more people who will need social care over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth remembering</title>
		<link>http://agebomb.com/2010/11/23/worth-remembering/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer’s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heartburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Remember Nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie and Julia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora Ephron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sleepless in Seattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Armies of the Night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When Harry Met Sally]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever rummaged frantically through the accumulated rubbish in your brain for someone’s name at a party, you will relish Nora Ephron’s latest book, I Remember Nothing. Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Heartburn and, most recently, Julie and Julia (which she also directed) has published a new collection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose Prize winners 2010</title>
		<link>http://agebomb.com/2010/11/11/purpose-prize-winners-2010/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allan Barsema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Childs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpenter’s Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inez Killingsworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judith B Van Ginkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Gordon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purpose Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherry Lansing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A former homeless alcoholic and a housekeeper are among this year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for entrepreneurs over the age of 60. The five winners, announced today, were selected by a panel of judges chaired by Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a Hollywood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design for living</title>
		<link>http://agebomb.com/2010/11/10/design-for-living/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://agebomb.com/2010/11/10/design-for-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cornell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Geriatrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Lachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This Caring Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treat Me Not My Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weill Medical College]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People of 80 or 90 plus who are eking out their lives in nursing homes with very poor quality of life are, according to New York geriatrician Mark Lachs, an indictment of society’s priorities. ‘I would argue,’ he writes, ‘that the “life extension” these people have experienced – a good deal of it the result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older and wiser?</title>
		<link>http://agebomb.com/2010/11/04/older-and-wiser/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Pilkington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Pearce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Making of An Elder Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roszak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US midterm elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agebomb.com/?p=1040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of items of news pose the intriguing question of what impact an older population will have on politics. To take the more trivial first, research in the UK suggests that over-55s are blocking the development of wind power, consistently leading campaigns against wind turbines that would benefit future generations. On a rather more [...]]]></description>
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