Thus, N. furzeri, in spite of its exceptionally short lifespan of only few months, exhibits general characteristics of vertebrate ageing which is in line with previously observed typical cytological and physiological ageing-related phenotypes [ 10].
The country is ageing, which means fewer workers and less production.
There is a profound cultural fear of ageing, which glorifies the young and deprecates anything old: "ageing infrastructure", "sunset industries".
These are the two key questions in a new book, Unequal Ageing, which is being launched at a national conference in Manchester town hall on Friday.
We're talking about the existential trauma of ageing which – along with death and cross-generational sex – is tackled in Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams's 1959 play.
Mr Nishimura blames the prolonged slump on ageing, which is furthest advanced in Japan, but is also occurring in many of the world's biggest economies.
But it is hard, not least because Western societies have started ageing, which means that fewer people are in work paying tax and more in retirement claiming benefits.
For taxpayers, this way of providing for pensions is bad news.The industrial countries' populations are ageing, which means the ratio of retired people to workers is rising.
It is a finding that chimes with a reportpublished last year by a Lords select committee on ageing, which concluded that the government and society were "woefully underprepared" for demographic change.
The UN's Second World Assembly on Ageing, which opens tomorrow in Madrid, will hear that the number of senior citizens in the world will increase from 629 million now to 2 billion by 2050.
Uganda is also a signatory to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, which calls for the poverty of older people to be halved in line with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halve world poverty by 2015.
