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Our Changing Expectations of Life
This conference will consider the many profound challenges in a world where the increase in life expectancy in developed countries exceeds 5 hours a day.
| Starts on | 26/11/2010 |
| Ends on | 28/11/2010 |
A joint Cumberland Lodge and Royal Society of Medicine residential conference
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In 2031, 23% of the population will be of pensionable age, and 17% will be under sixteen. Even now there are more pensioners than youngsters under 16. 20% of the UK’s population is over 65, and as research on ways to increase survival continues this percentage is very likely to increase. On the one hand this prediction must surely be a good thing: we can look forward to a longer, higher quality life. On the other hand, bare statistics do not reflect the paradoxical culture of ageing in this and most other countries: we appear to want not better old age, but longer youth. Is this a fair expectation? And underlying this is a more profound question: for what purpose do we strive to extend life?
Amongst others, speakers include:
For registration enquiries, please contact:
Janis Reeves, Conference Co-ordinator, Cumberland Lodge
T: 01784 497794 E: janis@cumberlandlodge.ac.uk
In association with the King's College London Centre for Humanities and Health
and
The Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University.
To find out more about the Institute's campaign to change attitudes to ageing, please watch the video below which features Professor Tom Kirkwood, Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health and Trustee of Cumberland Lodge:
