Population sustainability and geographical inequalities in the context of an ageing population

Abstract

The UK, like most relatively high-income countries, is experiencing population ageing. This poses challenges in terms of both population sustainability and policy efforts to address spatial inequalities. In the UK context, the population ageing process started earliest in Scotland and has been the focus of policy attention in Scotland for almost two decades.
This briefing assesses what broader lessons can be drawn from Scotland’s experiences of, and responses, to demographic challenges. It also considers how recent changes in working practices and residential preferences, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, affect the policy challenge of addressing longstanding spatial inequalities across the UK.

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ORCID for Teresa Mcgowan: orcid.org/0009-0002-9231-3743

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