Old Age

Best Ideas

  1. Children legally obliged to support elderly parents
  2. Gold medals for caring for old parents
  3. Old age pensions paid by robots
  4. A village for midwives and the retired
  5. Inter-generational home sharing
  6. Innovation centres run by elders

Social Inventions

  1. Exchanges between old people's homes
  2. Multi-media Memory Boxes
  3. Drum circles for the elderly
  4. A retirement home for spiritual seekers

Book of Visions

  1. Is ageing necessary?
  2. One's age is one's private property
  3. Marketed drug is a youth serum
  4. Pre-Retirement Day Release
  5. A movement for holidays in the sun
  6. New Horizons Trust
  7. Dark Horse Venture for Over 60s
  8. Help for Pensioners from the Retired (HelPeR)
  9. Grannycare shops
  10. Bringing elderly people into schools
  11. Linking young and old
  12. Grandparents for latch-key kids
  13. Adoptive grandparents for single parents
  14. Elderly sharing housing with younger housemates
  15. Care and Repair
  16. Mother/Father Swap
  17. The Pet Fostering Service Scotland
  18. The indoor milk indicator
  19. Rehearsing for old age
  20. Touch and teddy bears for the elderly
  21. Visits to the elderly from P.A.T. Dogs
  22. Bedtime service
  23. National Bed Line
  24. Checklist of questions for residential homes
  25. Residents rule - OK?
  26. Homes for the elderly who share same interests
  27. Group homes for elderly people from black and racial minorities
  28. Nature reserves with homes for the retired
  29. Housing for carers
  30. Magic Me
  31. Memory Box personal museums

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