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babies born in Britain today, a good chance of reaching 100. We need to help them feel at home

One afternoon, my daughter and I walked through the cemetery next to the parish of Haworth, Bronte family home in Yorkshire. Tombstones densely populated essentially the same story. Brother siblings after family after family buried long before his 12 th birthday. In 1850, a public inquiry into sanitation in the village revealed that the average life expectancy of its citizens was 25.4 years, not months before the age of my daughter, victims of dirty water and inadequate sewage wastewater.

Two days after this visit, the Department of Work and Pensions published a study that predicts that babies born this year are 50 times more likely to become centenarians who were born 100 years ago. Haworth bereaved parents have many reasons to celebrate this year more time with their children, however, the overwhelming response to this achievement possible by medical progress and better standards of life was an absolute pessimism.

The expansion of the current figure of 11 600 centenarians than half a million in 2066 allegedly because "a budget bomb", damaging efforts to reduce the deficit and lead to an age barren and dark as pensions and declining profits and a gray cloud hangs over a society addicted to youth. Of course, judging by the image that prevails today senescence, it is easy to see why the pessimism rules.

However, the future is a very different country. And a more positive frame of mind that the current collective panic could account for much more than we believe in the training of its land.

current statistics, it is understandable that the key question is: who wants to grow old and reach an age of the crop? A retired million live below the poverty line, more than a million over 65 say they often or always lonely, long-term chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease plague millions, public places , no concessions to the needs of less agile, while popular culture often pushes people over 60 on the box unless he or she tries to go through 20 years younger.

people celebrating their 100th birthday today would be entitled to require, as my aunt, "I am a century old, get me out of here!" (No chance, if -. He died in 108)

However, there is good news. Those octogenarians born in a society where the average life expectancy of just 60. Who suffered from the war, rationing, austerity, and often, many grafted hard in heavy industry for 30 years and older. They are the first children of the welfare state and are grateful for what they got, however, are often delivered less than what could be done to ensure their quality of life.

Now we are entering a new era. We know much more about what we can vaccinate against the worst effects of aging. The important elements are in good health, a decent income and, perhaps most significant of all, strong relationships and links with others.

genes and help the good fortune at the same time to create another type of society. A deal with the widening gap between young and old, the value is correctly assessed the experience and success is not only defined by what you earn and what you spend

These changes could even transform the horror of my daughter 26 years from the idea that other potentially life 80 years earlier that may be lucky enough to not experience a but several lives. In the U.S., for example, existing organizations that provide training truncated for retirees who take a "second" career in a field different from the first, often working to restore a. Community

In a sense, the future is already here. Since 1995, the study of centenarians in New England was the collection of a long life (and new recruits are welcome). Currently, the research study of 1,600 centenarians and 500 of their children who are in the seventies and eighties. About 85% of the original group are girls, women, gold, perhaps because at the time when they were young many defects have been deprecated: no fags or alcohol. (Even if a study published on the centenary of Ashkenazi Jews suggests that drinking and smoking are not always a barrier to extreme old age.)

New England group vary widely in education, income, religion, ethnicity and patterns of diet (saturated fat vegan very fat). However, they share a number of characteristics.
Jack Sprat opt to stay slim, but they seem better able to manage stress and stay positive, and women often gave birth to the end, after the age of 35. (Foster, perhaps, for those who have delayed childbearing, which could be there to see the flowers, even grandchildren.) Moreover, if the disease arrives, often delayed until a person reaches the nineties, and can make a strong recovery.