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Ageing but not ailing
26th August 2008
Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at Oxford and director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing offers this optimistic view of the economic and social spill-overs from our ageing population. Apparently - currently, every hour we live adds five minutes to our life expectancy.
Don’t panic, we have nothing to fear from an ageing society
The article seems to be in response to figures released last week that the number of people aged over 60 in the UK now outnumbers children for the first time.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.