Ageing
Why are attitudes towards older people often so negative? Mike Williams talks to older people, and the young, and asks how might we re-think this period of our lives.
Why are attitudes towards older people often so negative? Traditional definitions used to mark old age at around retirement, 60–65 but with many of us expected to live well into our eighties and beyond, that now seems absurd. Mike Williams talks to the old and the young, and asks how might we re-think of this period of our lives?
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- Fri 5 Apr 2013 18:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Online
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