An article in The Guardian on the implications of an ageing population on the world of work cites comments made by Professor Sarah Harper at Hay festival in May 2017. People should not be called old until they were seriously frail, dependent and approaching death Anything else should be called "active adulthood,” said Harper.
To mark 500 years since Martin Luther's Reformation, the Hay Festival hosted a series of its own reformations, in which leading thinkers re-imagine the world's institutions and authorities. Professor Sarah Harper delivered a talk which examined how health improvements and a declining birth rate, economic uncertainty and political turbulence is affecting an ageing population in Britain and around the world.
Read the article: Retain and retrain - how to keep an ageing population happy at work
