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Commentary: Defining a minimum income for healthy living (MIHL): older age, England—a comment on implications for application in the developing world
Director of Policy Development, HelpAge International. E-mail: mgorman@helpage.org
Accepted 6 August 2007
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Professor Morris and his colleagues have introduced an important perspective on the relationship between income and health in older age in England. In doing so their article also raises questions for the situation of older people elsewhere. In the developing world for example, the inter-relationship of age, health and material security is a critical concern for older populations, many of whom are experiencing significant levels of poverty and ill-health as they age.
This should be a public policy concern for developing countries not least because the rapidly rising proportions of