Future of Ageing 2019: Maximising the longevity dividend

Our ageing world is often painted as an inevitable economic cost. And the reality is, our economy faces major challenges if we fail to deliver the potential economic return from longer lives. Economic growth will be hit hard if we don’t find a way to better understand spending by older people. And a failure to better engage older workers and improve productivity will lead to our economy struggling for the skills it needs. Our ageing society could, however, offer a significant boost to UK PLC. But to deliver the potential, the UK must have an ambitious agenda for longevity, with business playing a key part.