Five programmes on Britain's elderly population.
2: An Ageing Nation
The over-60s in Britain are now nearly a fifth of the whole population. In the second of five personal views, Eric Midwinter , Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing, considers how and why this change in the structure of the population has taken place. He argues that the idea of a fixed retirement age has ' institutionalised ' old age. People are varied, but the rules governing retirement are rigid.'
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