‘Older people can be major business asset’

OLDER people can be a major business asset, a seminar was told in Dublin yesterday.

This is not a reversal of the cult of the young, however, just the plain facts of Ireland Inc facing the reality of an ageing population.

By 2011, the part of the population in the 45-69 age group (the older category) will have jumped 24% from 944,000 to 1,174,200.