Did you know there’s 9,000 people aged 100 or over living in the UK?
Date: Thursday, September 20th 2012
Categories: All Leicestershire
We noticed this interesting story in one of the newsletters we receive - written by Angela Gifford from Able Community Care Ltd.
"The United States has the highest number of centenarians, the number standing at 72,000 and this number is expected to rise to around one million by 250.
In the UK, the numbers are smaller but increasing. The Office of National Statistics gives the number of centenarians living in the UK as approximately 9,000 - a 90% increase since 1911 and an increase of 7% since 2005.
People over the age of 90 are the fastest growing population segment in the UK."
Do you care for someone who's 100 or over - or will be soon?
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