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Growing older in the 21st century
- Author:
- DEAN Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people in Britain are happier, healthier, and more resourceful than is generally supposed, but the message from the UK's biggest ever study of the quality of life in old age - the four-year Growing Older Programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council - is that the Government needs to do more to ensure that the growing numbers of older people have a better life. While people are living longer, life expectancy went up by 25 years in the last century, older people still live in a climate that is characterised by prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion, with people over 80 (the fastest rising segment of the population) hit hardest of all.