June 1982 - Issue 112
Two-thirds of all people who ever lived to their 60th birthday are alive today. And for the first time in history, enough people are surviving to old age around the world to make up a new generation - the over-sixties. Issue editor Debbie Taylor sorts through the statistics to find out what this means for our future.
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