Steven Baxter

Promotes the provision of clear advice on all matters longevity related; works closely with insurers and pension schemes. (All views are my own)

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@ActuaryByDay Magical!

Of course, I should ask how many games did you play, and how many rolls did you observe... (Just for the Christmas fun of some more challenging maths...)

Hope you and your family have a great Xmas and remain safe from COVID...

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Continued #inequalities in life expectancy also highlighted in todays @ONS data. Even pre-pandemic the shortest lived areas had life expectancy below what the longest lived areas experienced in 2001-3 https://t.co/YRvLgvRRgu

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Todays longevity publications by @ONS have a host of insights including the predictable drop in period life expectancy owing to COVID pandemic. https://t.co/krFtUsek0G

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@ActuaryByDay @ONS @ActuaryByDay Agreed. Todays headline numbers of a fall in period life expectancy was predictable in light of the tragic loss of life in 2020. Lets hope like Spanish Flu 100 years ago this dip in national statistics is short lived.

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

To everyone in business.... this is really important. Please do your upmost to support your staff if they have a key worker as a partner. Schools are operating to an absolutely minimum - please help them, our vulnerable and our key workers by being as flexible as poss

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Encouraging news amongst today's PM press conference that we are making progress on antibody testing. Will be crucial to managing our way out of "lockdown" #covid19

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Is the National Health Service more of a National Sickness Service? Should it be refocused on being a National Wellness Service to direct greater attention to prevention? Emerging thought from #longevityweek

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@PensionKit Thanks Paul - never too early for New Years Resolutions. Been hearing a lot today how AI focus shifting to the quality paradigm rather than purely treatment...

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Quality of life vs quantity of life? Should we focus on quality and accept quantity as (hopefully) a positive bi-product? Interesting start to Longevity UK event for #longevityweek

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Looking forward to todays #longevity webinar on #longevitytrends. Is it #austerity? #dementia? #flu? or something else? https://t.co/n2FoDbsrEH

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@JosephineCumbo Life expectancy reduction concentrated in the less affluent parts of society - widening UK social inequality. Very worrying at a societal level. (But DB pension scheme liabilities skewed towards more wealthy and so unlikely to wipe off full 2.5%.)

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@JosephineCumbo Or... the finances of pensions and insurers may become more volatile. Being "more responsive" works both ways. A couple of mild winters, a bit of extra resource in our health care system, or the emerging benefits of cancer screening could see us talking in very different terms.

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Fascinating ideas from @RobCochran1874 around use of augmented reality to help people visualise themselves in retirement - and interesting to see other organisations looking to embed creative communication techniques to engage on long term savings #betterfutures19

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Are we facing a lost generation for long term savings? Legislation, treasury and communication interventions needed? #betterfutures19

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

75% of delegates would sacrifice more of their income for a more equal society. Possible changes this could finance include health equality initiatives, greater exchequer input into auto enrolment, greater collectivism in social care and data trade arrangements #betterfutures19

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Time to have those difficult questions on healthy lifespans and the role of technology and policy? Panel at #betterfutures19 believe so...

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Decide on flu vaccine mutation later in year - eminently doable, cheap to implement and reduces the frailty decline drag on longevity #betterfutures19

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

#IFoALecture With dementia a growing cause of death can Peter offer some thoughts on the likely genetic 'hereditary' of dementia? Would we expect the explanatory power of genetics to rise or fall with rising prominence of dementia?

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

@clubvita @AlphabetLondon @JarlPickett @riskographer Sugars in smoothies give Douglas no hope....

[Steven Baxter @LongevityBaxter]

Looking forward to our teenage years as an international longevity data platform - thanks to all who attended @clubvita 10th birthday