The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), based at the University, will launch the exhibition ‘How to get to 100 and enjoy it’ in the West Quay shopping centre, Southampton (20-26 October).
Professor Jane Falkingham, Director of the CPC and the Dean of Social and Human Sciences, says: “The number of 100 year olds is growing and researchers believe that in the future ageing will occur at increasingly later stages of life. It’s estimated one in three UK children born in 2014 will live to be 100 years old.”
Some key facts highlighted include:
- The United Nations estimates the number of centenarians worldwide will increase tenfold by 2050, from 320,000 today to 3.2m.
- Our genes only make up a quarter of the factors determining how long we live.
- In Europe today there is one retiree for every four people of working age. By 2060 this is expected to rise to one in two.
The exhibition will be in the West Quay shopping centre from 20 – 26 October and will then move to the gallery@oxo in Oxo Tower Wharf on the South Bank in London from 29 October – 2 November, ahead of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science. Entrance is free and open to everyone.
For more about ‘How to get to 100 and enjoy it’ visit the exhibition website.