None of us are getting any younger, but it appears the age at which we are considered old has moved upwards over the generations. What’s…
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Nearly 1m UK pensioners living in deprivation, official figures show
Nearly 1 million people aged over 66 in the UK are living in deprivation, according to government statistics, the highest number since comparable records began.…
View More Nearly 1m UK pensioners living in deprivation, official figures show‘We’re hugely worried’: UK private pension rule changes disrupt retirement plans
You’ve been dutifully paying into your company or private pension for years, maybe even decades, but then – perhaps when you’re just about to retire…
View More ‘We’re hugely worried’: UK private pension rule changes disrupt retirement plans‘It makes moving pointless’: why stamp duty is the biggest downside to downsizing
What’s standing in the way of downsizing for Gail, 58, from Manchester – who is self-employed and lives with her partner in a five-bed house…
View More ‘It makes moving pointless’: why stamp duty is the biggest downside to downsizingRaising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millions
Raising the state retirement age to 71 would condemn millions of middle-aged people to misery as they get older, Britain’s biggest independent organisation of older…
View More Raising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millions‘That’s just normal forgetting’: the difference between memory loss and dementia – and how to protect your brain
Isn’t it Sod’s Law? Just at the point in our lives when we start seriously considering our long-term health and mortality – perhaps after witnessing older…
View More ‘That’s just normal forgetting’: the difference between memory loss and dementia – and how to protect your brain‘Just keep going’: the horse-riding 97-year-old botanist battling for England’s wildflowers
Margaret Bradshaw crouches on all fours on Widdybank Fell in Teesdale, being drenched by sheets of horizontal rain. The 97-year-old botanist mumbles the names of…
View More ‘Just keep going’: the horse-riding 97-year-old botanist battling for England’s wildflowersMyopia, allergies, sex: some things improve the older you get, say experts
One benefit of ageing, according to the actor Adrian Edmondson, 66, is that he has been able to ditch the spectacles he has worn since…
View More Myopia, allergies, sex: some things improve the older you get, say experts‘We feel we’ve earned it’: UK over-50s on switching to part-time work
Simon Woodall, 52, a self-employed carpenter and joiner from Plymouth, says he worked “70 hours a week, for 30 years”, until he had a heart…
View More ‘We feel we’ve earned it’: UK over-50s on switching to part-time workEat beans and scratch your own back – expert advice on how to age better, inside and out
Forget lifespan: increasingly, healthspan – the years that we feel healthy and active – has become the holy grail among gerontologists. “You only need to…
View More Eat beans and scratch your own back – expert advice on how to age better, inside and out