Ageing but not ailing

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.

Unit 2 Macro: Population Shift in China [23 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: A World of Seven Billion People [30 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Development Issues: The Baby Boom in Zambia [29 Dec 2011]
What do all these people have in common? [1 Nov 2011]
7 billion people - where do you fit in? [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: A Widening Regional Divide in Life Expectancy [19 Oct 2011]
7 Billion: Are You Typical? [6 Mar 2011]
Consumption Graphic [19 Jan 2011]
Engineering Approaches to Growing Populations [13 Jan 2011]
The Joy of Stats - Brilliant Hans Rosling Presentation [30 Nov 2010]
Demographic shifts - and working with China [31 Mar 2010]
Intergenerational injustice? [5 Mar 2010]
An older population requires a change of mindset [7 Oct 2009]
Demographic change - the rise of the ‘oldest old’ [3 Oct 2009]
Rising Birth Rate pushes UK Population Growth to 47 year high [28 Aug 2009]
Challenges and opportunities of an expanding population [17 Apr 2009]
Back to the cave or a brave new world? [22 Sep 2008]
Grey hairs, pensions and the trend growth rate [4 Aug 2008]
Waist Check [17 Jun 2008]
Going Up [17 Apr 2008]
Lie down and think of the President [7 Mar 2008]
Malthus’ Revenge? [6 Mar 2008]

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