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Simon Stevens: on lifestyles and living beyond 100

If all goes well, next month my wife’s grandma will turn 100. That is a birthday only around one in 5,000 of her peers will be around to celebrate. Not bad for a woman who, like millions of others, emigrated between the two world wars from eastern Europe to New York, arriving at Ellis Island with all her worldly possessions in a battered suitcase.

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