One issue to address is ever-longer prison sentences – in England and Wales we have fewer people going to prison, but their prison sentences are longer than 10 years ago for the same crimes.
But interventions and evaluation will need significant redesign and the adoption of new approaches if they are ever to achieve longer term success.
The country has one of the lowest birth rates in western Europe, at an average of 1.3 children per woman, and the population is now shrinking; yet Italians are living ever longer, so it is also ageing rapidly.
The need for a product is clear: people are living ever longer (see chart 2), which creates risk for institutions such as corporate pension schemes and annuity providers that will have to provide retirement incomes for longer than expected.
Casey Lynch, a serial entrepreneur with a background in Alzheimer's research at both UCSF and Stanford, whose biggest fear is that our bodies are living ever longer, while our brains have the same short half-life.
Intensifying the challenges is the fact that people are living ever longer, often for decades, with one or more chronic ailments, including dementia.
She added: ""In an era in which people are living ever longer, many people can understand how the pope is having to deal with the burdens of aging".
As we're living ever longer, we're outlasting the possibilities of love.
THE British are living ever longer, thanks to medical advances that variously halt or treat disease.
But if they settle down at all, young people are waiting ever longer to do it.
