City will agerapidly overnext 20 years

By The Newsroom
Published 21st May 2015, 14:10 BST
Professor Ian Young from Queens Universitys NICOLA project  Northern Irelands largest public health research project - will be working with 700 local people to understand the implications.Professor Ian Young from Queens Universitys NICOLA project  Northern Irelands largest public health research project - will be working with 700 local people to understand the implications.
Professor Ian Young from Queens Universitys NICOLA project  Northern Irelands largest public health research project - will be working with 700 local people to understand the implications.
The number of over-50s in Derry and Strabane District Council is set to jump by 17,000 by 2037 with a three-fold jump in the numbers aged over 85 also projected by the same date.

Professor Ian Young from Queen’s University’s ‘NICOLA’ project – Northern Ireland’s largest public health research project - will be working with 700 local people to understand the implications.

Professor Ian Young, Principal Investigator of the NICOLA Project, said: “NICOLA is the largest public health research project ever undertaken in Northern Ireland and will track the lives of 8,500 over-50s across Northern Ireland as they grow older.

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