The Strait Times newspaper reported on the International Consortium for Intergenerational Programme conference (held in Singapore 26-20 April 2010) closing keynote lecture presented by Prof Sarah Harper.
> Strait Times article, Singapore
Old Folks In Singapore an Asset
By Carolyn Quek
COMPARED with old folk in other Asian states, the elderly in Singapore are contributing both practically and financially to their families, according to a 2008 global ageing study by Oxford University. Unfortunately, they also get less support of the same kind from their children and grandchildren.
Said British gerontologist Sarah Harper, one of the researchers behind the study: 'We have this idea that older people are a burden on our society but that's because we tend to look at it through our tax system, that they are not in work.'
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