Healthy Ageing

Apr 25, 20243 min read

Vulnerable in the city

“Vulnerability” comes from the Latin word for wound – vulnis. It’s the state of being open to injury, or appearing as if you are. Feeling...

Mar 26, 20244 min read

Can local initiatives increase the life expectancy of residents?

A report came out last week from the Kings Fund and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation giving new evidence to the link between areas of...

Oct 12, 20234 min read

Borrow some medical practice to build healthy homes and places

This past year has seen real progress in demonstrating how our built environment - the homes & places where we live – impacts our...

Sep 29, 20234 min read

Connecting generations through houses & places

Earlier this week I came home to find on my doormat a “special invitation” from Audley Villages to visit a newly developed “luxury...

Sep 7, 20233 min read

We all deserve to live in a Blue Zone

A new docuseries dropped on Netflix last week called “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones”. The series is conceived, produced, and...

Aug 24, 20233 min read

We need to talk about Toilets

When I wrote over a year ago about the need to rethink public toilets, a journalist I know told me that the issue would not attract wider...

Jul 16, 20233 min read

Homes, Places and the Peckham Experiment

Last year I interviewed Lord Nigel Crisp about housing and its impact on our individual and collective health, and how the scale of this...

May 3, 20235 min read

How do we sustain multigenerational communities in London?

“We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy...

Nov 22, 20224 min read

How listening to locals generates good health: a visit to the Bromley-by-Bow Centre

I visited the Bromley-by-Bow Centre (BBBC) last week for a presentation, tour and chat with its insights director Dan Hopewell. Quite by...

Oct 27, 20223 min read

Homes, Places and Health – an interview with Lord Nigel Crisp

Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global...

Sep 21, 20224 min read

Listening to older locals

Earlier this summer, I eagerly attended a series of workshops led by the team seeking to redevelop a site in Kew, SW London, currently...

Oct 20, 20213 min read

New approaches to promoting health in local communities

The growth in health inequalities across London and the country has focused many of us on how to improve accessibility to health services...

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