Ageing in the 21st century: what you don’t know can kill you
EXPERTS worldwide have called it “a situation without precedent”. Everyone from the UN to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Time magazine have called it the most pressing and compelling fact of our generation: people are living longer but not necessarily better.
“We soon will have more older people than children and more people at extreme old age than ever before,” wrote the WHO in a report in 2011. “The
