"The Oxford professor of gerontology Sarah Harper this week declared that the life expectancy of a British baby born today is an astonishing 104 years. Modern medicine is lengthening the average life span by 15 minutes with every passing hour. Seventy is the new 50. Pensioner marriages are soaring."
An article in The Guardian "We all want to live longer. But someone must pay" quotes issues around ageing discussed by Professor Sarah Harper at the Hay Festival this week and featured in an article in the Guardian’s series on “the new retirement”. Harper points out, we are in “a crazy situation” where the young can be in education right up until their mid-20s, and then retired from their early 60s until their 90s. For over half a lifetime, people will be economically inactive, living off and not contributing to the common weal.
Read the article: We all want to live longer. But someone must pay
