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Podcast: Transforming Society podcast
Episode: The ageing crisis that no one’s talking about
Description: Within the next 30 years the European workforce will be down by a quarter, upsetting the systems we have had in place for decades. In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Giles Merritt, author of 'Timebomb: When Ageing Explodes', about this impending ageing crisis. They discuss the multiple factors that have led us here, as well as what needs to be done to defuse this bomb before it goes off and explodes the European economy.Since his 1978 arrival in the 'Capital of Europe' as a correspondent of the Financial Times, Giles Merritt has sp...