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.

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