Campaigners have sounded the alarm about a potential increase in pensioner poverty in Britain over the coming decades after it emerged that the share of…
View More Pensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth fallsTag: Older people
Ryanair charges elderly couple £110 after they download wrong boarding cards
An elderly couple have said they were “horrified” to be charged £110 by Ryanair for new boarding passes after they mistakenly checked into the wrong…
View More Ryanair charges elderly couple £110 after they download wrong boarding cards‘It’s exhausting but I think I’m going to have to keep working’: the over-65s who can’t afford to retire
Dee, 67, who lives in Accrington in Lancashire, left school at 14. She worked in factories, hairdressing shops and bars, and did secretarial temp work…
View More ‘It’s exhausting but I think I’m going to have to keep working’: the over-65s who can’t afford to retireMillions cannot afford to heat homes as UK faces Arctic snap
More than 3 million low-income UK households cannot afford to heat their homes, according to research, as a “dangerously cold” weather front arrives from the…
View More Millions cannot afford to heat homes as UK faces Arctic snap‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour force
“I’m still working at home, but only just.” Before the pandemic, Melanie Green loved her job in a bustling police control room. But the drugs…
View More ‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour forceLeft in isolation: how the online revolution failed our elderly people
Eighty-seven-year-old Doris* is cut off from the outside world. Not because of her remote house, the death of her husband, or her failing health, but…
View More Left in isolation: how the online revolution failed our elderly peopleFaster times, record numbers: the science of running marathons as an older person
This year’s London marathon will have record numbers of veteran participants, with a near-doubling of the number of female runners aged 60 to 69 registering…
View More Faster times, record numbers: the science of running marathons as an older personSuccess of experimental Alzheimer’s drug hailed as ‘historic moment’
An experimental drug has slowed the rate of decline in memory and thinking in people with early Alzheimer’s disease in what is being described as…
View More Success of experimental Alzheimer’s drug hailed as ‘historic moment’Cost of living payments: who qualifies, when is it paid and what do you get?
Households entitled to the government’s cost of living payments, announced by the chancellor in May to help with the rising cost of energy and food,…
View More Cost of living payments: who qualifies, when is it paid and what do you get?‘I feel abandoned by the state’: UK pensioners on the cost of living crisis
UK inflation is running at 9% in May, driven by sharp rises in the price of gas and electricity, food and transport costs. Among the…
View More ‘I feel abandoned by the state’: UK pensioners on the cost of living crisis