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'Demographic dividends' of ageing

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Medics are claiming that art and music can be used to counter negative perceptions of old people.

Professor Desmond O'Neill, the president of the EU's Geriatric Medicine Society, explains his theory on the "vibrance and vitality" of old age.


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