Ageing Better responds to new report warning one in five people in England will have a major illness by 2040
The number of people in ill health will rise by 37 per cent over the next two decades according to a new Health Foundation report.
People are living longer but society is unprepared for our ageing population.
The UK’s population is undergoing a massive age shift. There are over 11 million people aged 65 and in ten years’ time this will have increased to 13 million people, 22% of the population.
The fact that many of us are living longer is to be celebrated. But society still has inaccurate assumptions about ageing and the experience of ageing in England is getting worse and more unequal.
A growing number of people are experiencing poverty, discrimination and poor health as they get older.
We are working to drive the changes that are needed to respond to this shifting age demographic. These require new approaches across society and for us all to think, feel and act differently about ageing.
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