Insight (1995)

Staying Alive (2013x24)

Uitzenddatum: Aug 19, 2013

Would you want to live to 120? "There will be a world where people can look forward to living at least beyond 100." - Professor David Sinclair "Well I don’t want to live till I’m 100, I have a chronic disease. I’ve looked after my family and my close friends who have passed away." - Jacqueline Meredith, 81 Following Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott's struggle to answer questions on Aged Care during the first 2013 election debate, Insight asks what it’s like to be old. Really old. Australians are getting older and living longer. By 2050, almost a quarter of the Australian population will be aged over 65, compared to 14 per cent now. Is living longer a good thing, or are we dragging out a long deterioration? We hear from those aged in their 80s, 90s, even 100s. And we meet the Aussie geneticist working on a pill to 'cure ageing' and find out what he means when he talks about 'mouse-opause'.