Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Fear of ageing is really a fear of the unknown – and modern society is making things worse

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par Chao Fang, Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
Alastair Comery, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath

For the first time in human history, we have entered an era in which reaching old age is taken for granted. Unlike in ages past, when living to an older age was a luxury afforded mainly to the privileged, globally around 79% of women and 70% of men can expect to reach the age of 65 and beyond.

Despite longer life expectancy, many people in the contemporary west see growing old as undesirable…

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