A one-day workshop being arranged by the Oxford Institute of Ageing jointly with the James Martin School of the 21st Century, 23 May 2008 at the Old Indian Institute, Broad Street, Oxford. The Workshop is convened by Dr .George W Leeson, with guest speaker Bjarne Hastrup, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Copenhagen,and discussants Mr. Kenneth Howse, James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing and Dr .Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Politics, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford.