文档介绍：Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published today.
The current approach which __67__ on younger people and on skills for employment is not __68__ to meet the challenges of demographic(人口结构的) change, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is __69__ spent on the oldest third of the population.
The __70__ include the fact that most people can expect to spend a third of their lives in __71__, that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and that million people are __72__ state pension age.
"__73__ needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources __74__ young people cannot meet the new __75__," says the report's author, Professor Stephen McNair.
"The major __76__ of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. __77__ people are changing their jobs, __78__, partners and lifestyles more often than __79__, they need opportunities to learn at every age." __80__, some people are starting new careers in their 50s and later.
People need opportunities to make a "midlife review" to __81__ to the later stages of employed life, and to plan for the transition(过渡) __82__ retirement, which may now happen __83__ at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair.
And there should be more money __8