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Care homes: Tackling an age-old issue

By Salamander Davoudi

Published: July 3 2008 02:56 | Last updated: July 3 2008 02:56

By 2020 the number of people in the UK aged over 80 will have doubled and the number of centenarians will have quadrupled, according to the Department of Health.

This ageing population is a global phenomenon. Governments worldwide are debating how to cope with a rising number of elderly people.

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