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World Service,26 Jul 2013,17 mins

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Why are attitudes towards older people often so negative? Traditional definitions used to mark old age at around retirement - 60鈥 65 years. But with many of us expected to live well into our 80s and beyond, that now seems absurd. Mike Williams talks to the old and the young, and asks how might we re-think of this period of our lives ? (Image: A woman holds the hands of an elderly relative. Credit: AFP/Getty Images )

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