Changing world, changing old age.

Abstract

Every fifth Finn has turned 65. Most of them live an active life that does not differ from that of the working-age population. Long-term illnesses and the resulting disability are accumulating to the late senescence. The need for help from other people and the resulting financial pressures on municipalities are targeted to the elderly having a memory disorder as one of their diseases. Is normal old age thus disappearing, and will the group of those having lost their brain health and requiring care be the only thing that is left from old age?