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In every population every individual is ageing. To say that a population is ageing means that the average age of the population is rising.
This might be because people are living longer.
Does an "ageing population" make it harder to afford our NHS? A look behind the rhetoric
Jeremy Hunt claims the "ageing population" poses a challenge "as serious as global warming". New UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says the "ageing population" will force us to see the NHS as merely a "monolithic hangover from days gone by". OurNHS thought it was time to examine such claims - and finds the
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