Ageing population
People Fixing The World. Does the World Need More Babies? Audio, 23 minutes
How countries with low birth rates are trying to get people to have more babies
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People Fixing The World. How to Build a City for an Ageing Population. Audio, 23 minutes
Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population
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The Documentary Podcast. Not Making Babies in South Korea. Audio, 27 minutes
Why does South Korea have the lowest fertility rate in the world?
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A History of Britain in Numbers. Old Age. Audio, 15 minutes
Andrew reveals the changing shape of our lives by compressing a whole life into 20 seconds
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The Why Factor. Retirement. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we retire?
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Costing the Earth. The Environmental Cost of Ageing. Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Heap examines the carbon footprint of older people.
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The Monday Documentary. The new Third Age - part four. Audio, 22 minutes
What is it really like to be old now? What challenges do people face?
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The Monday Documentary. The new Third Age - part three. Audio, 23 minutes
If you were ill, could you imagine being looked after by a robot rather than a human nurse?
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The Monday Documentary. The new Third Age - part two. Audio, 23 minutes
What is it really like to be old in this century of ageing?
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The Monday Documentary. The new Third Age - part one. Audio, 23 minutes
Jane Little meets older people whose lifestyle would have amazed previous generations
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Agenda. Living in an Ageing World. Audio, 26 minutes
The world's population is getting older. How will this effect everyone's lives?
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Young at Heart. Introduction. Audio, 13 minutes
The chances of living a long and healthy life are increasing
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Visionaries. Health and Ageing. Audio, 4 minutes
Predictions that a new value will be placed on the emotional resources of older people
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Agenda. Ageing and Living Longer Is Changing the Way We Live. Audio, 30 minutes
Who will look after us when we're old and how will societies make the most of old people?
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