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World Service,14 Apr 2012,28 mins

Growing Old

Global Business

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As baby boomers start turning 65, many countries are quite suddenly growing old. The trend means big changes for the economy, healthcare, social life and a challenge to the assumptions by which we have lived life for the past two centuries. Peter Day explains why.

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