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... not feel particularly old. Although retirement age is generally seen as the entry point into old age, this differs from country to country, so again this cannot be definitive. For this document, the exact entry point to old age is insignificant, what is important to reaslise is that the numbers of old people are increasing, and they are doing so at an alarming rate. What regions of the world is experiencing increase in old age? Old age or ageing is a recurring problem that is starting to become evident in countries not just confined to the developed countries of Europe, but to countries over the whole world. Massive changes are happening to population structures that are showing huge increases in old age in most developed countries, but even larger ones are being seen in the undeveloped countries. This is a process that has been occurring most prolifically in the last 30 ...
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