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02/03/2013 GMT

The Challenge of Ageing

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Is it time to re-define what we actually mean by Old Age?

The key challenges of ageing: writer PD James, statistician Hans Rosling, gerontologist Sarah Harper, and Helena Kennedy QC at the Space For Thought festival at the LSE.

Does the future belong to the old? And is it time to re-define what we actually mean by Old Age? Joining Helena Kenendy QC on stage at the London School of Economics is the celebrated Swedish statistician Hans Rosling, renowned crime writer PD James, now in her nineties, and Oxford Professor of Gerontology Sarah Harper. Plus a live audience at the Space For Thought festival at the LSE. 

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