Connect Project

Nuffield Connecting Pensions, Health, and Care Project

“CONNECTing Pensions, Health and Care” is a Nuffield Foundation-funded project aimed at understanding and improving support for living well in later years.

What We’re Doing: We’re assembling experts to study retirement funding, healthcare, and long-term care systems. By gathering feedback from various stakeholders and conducting surveys, we’ll integrate this information into a pilot model to evaluate the impact of different reforms on diverse population groups.

Why It Matters:This project will guide future research on making old-age support sustainable amid demographic and socio-economic challenges, helping younger generations prepare for the future.

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Research Objectives

1: To explore preferences for different features of the three old-age support systems (e.g. types of financing/contribution, eligibility criteria, level of provision, accessibility) and attitudes towards combinations of these features among different population groups.

2: To develop a unified conceptual framework by critically reviewing existing holistic approaches towards researching complex social systems. We would take perspectives from various disciplines and consider existing empirical evidence on the linkages between the three old-age support systems and factors that affect those linkages.

3: To develop a medium scale conceptual life-cycle model that can act as a pilot for the future large-scale model enabling quantitative analysis of the welfare and inter-generational equity effects of alternative policies.

4: To develop the working model for engagement with non-academic audiences in future transdisciplinary research on old-age support systems.

This project’s goal is to set the foundations for the future transdisciplinary research and policy design that takes a holistic approach to the three old-age support systems in identifying socially acceptable and politically palatable policy options concerned with the systems’ financial sustainability and intergenerational equality.

Engagement activities

Upcoming events
TBC

Past events
Advisory Board meeting 2: 7 November 2024

The Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team met for their second meeting with the Advisory Board online.

Stakeholder mapping workshop: TBC 2025
Citizens Advisory Board meeting 2: 4 November 2024

The Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team took the opportunity to engage with our brilliant patient and public advisors to receive feedback on our economic model, surveying tools and dissemination plan.
bOing!: Drawing event: August 2024

The Connecting Pensions Health and Care team collaborated with Fine Artist Molly Lambourn to deliver a weekend of drawing activity. Participants aged 2-80 years old contributed to our public artwork, a community tea-set which considered what it meant to live well in old age. Participants drew and wrote what this meant to them. We discovered motifs of nature, seaside and animals alongside the considerations of spending time with family.
Kick Off meeting 26 January 2024

The Nuffield Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team launched their project at the Nuffield Offices in London in January. Olena Nizalova and the team introduced their project, key goals and questions to their Advisory Board and Citizens Advisory Group.

We were pleased to announce our ambitions for the project and to receive constructive feedback from industry and academic experts from private, public and charity sectors.

Press releases
Connecting pensions, health and care – £930,000 award for research on old-age support systems – News Centre – University of Kent
Connecting pensions, health and care – Nuffield Foundation
Connecting pensions, health and care – £930,000 award for research on old-age support systems | PSSRU
Connecting pensions, health and care: new research for an ageing population – Nuffield Foundation
Funding for research into living well in later life – Nuffield Foundation

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