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The Guardian arranged a morning Conference on Ageing last week, chaired by their excellent columnist, Jackie Ashley. She writes about it in today’s edition. She cites familiar projections, such as that there are likely to be 2.9million people over the age of 85 in the U.K. in twenty years time. Today there are four working people for every retired person, but in forty five years time it may be as few as only two working people per aged person. ‘That’s impossible’, says Ashley, ‘it’s unsustainable. It won’t work’. Are we going to ‘import young African and Asian people to fill