Ryman warns NZ, Australia to take population ageing more seriously

Ryman warns NZ, Australia to take population ageing more seriously
Jenny Ruth
Ryman Healthcare says the Australian and New Zealand governments need to take the rapid ageing of the population more seriously.Chief executive Gordon MacLeod estimates there are 143 million people aged over 80 years now and that will jump to 426 million by 2050. And he says the demographic spikes in both New Zealand and Victoria, the regions in which Ryman operates, are accelerating faster than the rest of the world."It's taken 200,000 years to get to 125 million and it's going to take just 30 years for it to triple. It's an extraordinary chan...

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