Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.
By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
People come from all over the world - from Europe and further afield - to work, study, and innovate in our country. More than 50,000 work in our National Health Service, making a vital contribution in caring for our ageing society.
Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends
People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.
