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We need a new mindset for both young and old

AS of March 27, 2011, there were 36,000 more people in Scotland aged 65 and over than there were people aged under 15.

This is new, and therefore interesting.

It is especially interesting, I'd have thought, for the now-outnumbered young. Still more pairs of slightly failing eyes to keep you under surveillance. Still more unfeasibly old sorts to share their wisdom amid the ruins – nice job, that – of a crashed economy. Better get used to it.

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