Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa.

We're all living longer, many of us, much, much longer.

Yet we also live in a world which prizes productivity and youth above all.

So in this edition, we're asking, how to age?

Well, how about working well into your twilight years?

We need business schools for a 65 plus. We need training facilities for a 70 plus. And what about

those who want to harness science and technology to defeat old age altogether?

Don't assume that you're going to die on schedule, because you just might not.

Plus, can we even speak of a right way to age?

And so when they say I don't feel old, they usually say it with surprise that I haven't become that generic old person.

I have become another version of myself.

That's all coming up.

The United Nations predicts that globally the number of people aged 60 or over

is expected to more than double by 2050 and more than triple by the end of this century.

Meanwhile, it's estimated that more than half of all babies born in industrialised nations since the year 2000

can expect to live to 100 years. So is this something we should

dread or embrace? We are pouring talents, experience, knowledge, pouring it all down the drain.

It's all completely wasted. Charles Eugster knows which side he's on.

He's a former dentist and publisher, now an author, living in Switzerland.

He's also an athlete, oarsman and bodybuilder.

Oh, and he recently turned 97.

He has his own website about how to age well,

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