I AM ONE of the many thousands of people in Ireland who take a statin drug on a daily basis to control our cholesterol levels. One of the biggest social transformations is population aging. Soon, the world will have more older people than children and more people of very old age than ever before. Russia has ignored established stars to choose a group of grandmothers from an obscure provincial village to represent the country at the 2012 Eurovision song contest. Age Action has said it believes International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have been poorly informed as to the full extent of the impact of cuts on older people in Ireland. THE PUBLIC is paying the price for the failure of successive governments to introduce a statutory framework that would set out clear rules on eligibility for health services, Ombudsman and Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly has warned.