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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:715-718
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Editorial

Ageing, health and society

Shah Ebrahim

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

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‘Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?’ Lennon and McCartney wrote this line in 1967. Average life expectancy at birth for a man in England was 68, but it is now 75 years and rising at the rate of 2 months every year. The rise in the oldest old has been even more dramatic amongst very old people and is best exemplified by the number of people reaching 100 years of age. In the UK, it is the custom for the Queen to send these people a congratulatory telegram (Table 1Go). The Queen now sends a card by express mail as the telegram service no longer exists. How long before she just sends an e-mail?


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  		Table 1 Birthday greetings telegrams sent by Queen Elizabeth II to people on their 100th birthday, 1952–2001
 
This issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology contains a series of papers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Demographic alarmism

A new social contract?

Political denial, empowering the disenfranchised

Avoiding differential challenge

The World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid


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