This foresight brief explores how in the coming years many people in Canada may struggle to meet their basic needs.
What changes could shape our capacities, opportunities, and motivation for social connection in the future?
People’s mindsets about labour (paid and unpaid) are shifting. Changes to the roles of labour and leisure could alter the balance of time devoted to work, social relationships, and leisure over the life course.
A shortage in paid and unpaid care is intersecting with an increased disease burden across the life course. This could lead to unequal outcomes for both caregivers and care recipients, depending on their stage in ...
People are becoming parents later in life and through non-traditional means. Changes in the who, what, where, why, and when of reproduction could affect entire life trajectories.
As people live healthier, longer lives, many older adults are enjoying a period of renewed self-discovery later in life. Changes in how people spend their time, and how and where they live during this ...
More students are turning to alternatives to university, and college-based skills training and credentialization are on the rise. These changes could greatly affect the timing, nature, motivations, and outcomes of educational pursuits over the life ...
Broad transitions like ageing demographics are affecting where and how people live. Changes in lifestyle and living arrangements could then lead to greater (in)security and (in)stability over the life course.
An individual’s life course is made up of all the events and roles that they experience, and the sequence of these, over their entire lifetime. But in our rapidly changing world, the typical life course ...
This video tackles the future of social connection along with three changes and their policy implications: The automation of social connections, our real connections in virtual worlds, and the deepening of social surveillance.
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