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Tuesday 24 April 2012	Ageing and pensions


Alka Sehgal Cuthbert What’s really behind the crisis in caring? Last night’s BBC Panorama showed how grim some care homes are. But more bureaucratic monitoring is not the solution.

Monday 10 September 2007
Ken McLaughlin Look on the bright side of 'later life' Ignore reports that depict millions of elderly people as the victims of abuse or mental illness. Getting older is better than it's ever been.

Sunday 15 July 2007
Chris Dalby How China respects its elders With 144million over-60s, China is having to devise new ways to care for its elderly. Chris Dalby reports from a retirement home near Beijing.

Monday 5 March 2007
Phil Mullan A demented approach to the ageing population Scary headlines about a 'dementia timebomb' expose today's miserabilist view of the human success story that is longer life.

Monday 5 June 2006
Nancy McDermott There’s more to life than avoiding death Philip Roth’s new novel Everyman explores what happens when we obsess too much about life’s final ‘reality check’.

Thursday 8 December 2005
Phil Mullan Ageing and the ‘pensions crisis’ Never mind the Pensions Commission: we can afford the future without saving our pennies and keeping pensioners in poverty.

Friday 29 July 2005
Phil Mullan Don’t raise the state pension age - scrap it People should be able to choose when and how they retire.

Tuesday 18 January 2005
Jennie Bristow What’s wrong with the World’s Oldest Mum? It might be selfish and unnatural - but a woman in her 60s should have the choice to have a child.

Friday 29 October 2004
Phil Mullan Turner report: an old story The 'pensions crisis' is not the result of demographics, but of our leaders' miserly attitude towards the elderly.

Friday 15 October 2004
Phil Mullan Ageing: the future is affordable The real problem in the 'pensions crisis' is not demographics, but our mean-spirited attitude towards the elderly.

Wednesday 21 April 2004
Jennie Bristow An ‘epidemic’ of elder abuse? How the abuse industry is victimising old people.

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