2026 Workshop on 'The Longevity Economy: Financing Healthy Ageing'

Co-organised by the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) at LSE & the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) at the University of Pennsylvania

Monday 29 June 2026, 11am-6pm BST

About the Workshop

Submission Deadline: 1 May 2026 to Dr Nilesh Raut n.raut@lse.ac.uk

Population ageing is transforming economies, social institutions, and public finance worldwide. As longevity increases, ensuring the financial sustainability of longer lives while promoting health, wellbeing, and economic security has become a central policy and research challenge.

This workshop brings together researchers to examine the Longevity Economy, with a particular focus on the financing of healthy ageing. We aim to explore how individuals, markets, and governments allocate resources to support wellbeing at older ages, and how financial and social systems adapt to demographic change.

We particularly welcome contributions that address the financing of old-age pensions, retirement security, and housing for older adults. Topics of interest include the sustainability and design of public and private pension systems, long-term care financing, housing affordability and arrangements in later life, and wealth accumulation and decumulation across older age.

Submissions that investigate behavioural and cognitive factors influencing financial and health-related decisions—such as retirement planning, savings behaviour, long-term care preparation, and the effectiveness of financial incentives and public policy—are highly encouraged.

Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, the workshop seeks to advance research and policy dialogue on how financial systems, institutional arrangements, and innovative policies can better support ageing populations in high-income as well as low- and middle-income countries.