Jennifer Gilchrist: Looking to the future of protection

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Protection providers necessarily expect clients and their advisers to think about the future but, says Jennifer Gilchrist, they should practise what they preach with innovative products for coming generations

I popped into the Design Museum recently to see the ‘New Old' Exhibition, which is showcasing ideas commissioned from designers for solutions to help meet the challenges of a rapidly ageing society.  The exhibits were handpicked to show how design and technology could help people lead fuller, healthier and more rewarding lives into old age. One exhibit that got me thinking was the visual representation of a bar graph that showed a predicted static birth rate could happen soon.  The following chart does not fully do the exhibit justice but it does show the data. Source: Desig...

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