LEADING the PACK
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE statistics to dash the construct that age is just a number and a matter of opinion – your own. The 2021 Census results released in April showed that, although you may be as young as you feel, aging marches on. Those 65 and over now make up 19 per cent of the population, while those 85 and up (members of the inter-war and greatest generations) are the fastest-growing age group, with a 16 per cent increase in centenarians since 2019. But boomers who have long enjoyed flexing their demographic might are on their way to losing the leverage of scale. For the first time since the end of the baby boom in 1965, they make up less than a quarter of the population, with millennials born between 1981…