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Tackling the ticking time bomb of the ageing population

The 12th GM conference took place at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. Dr Clare Gerada, Medical Director, NHS Practitioner Health Programme, spoke about the ticking time bomb of the ageing population.

The number of people aged over 75 years is set to double in the next ten years and people over the age of 65 years are going to make up the majority of the population. It is a credit to the NHS that the reason we have this problem is that we have a healthcare system that is delivering. However, this ticking time bomb of the elderly population means that we need a debate about how we keep people healthy for as long as possible. Also what happens when they are not healthy. When I worked in a practice in

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