Today’s healthiest and wealthiest retirees are eight times more likely to live to 100 than the poorest and least healthy
23 Oct 2017 - Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Britain has an ageing population and Brexit negotiations are delaying the difficult and urgent public policy decisions that need to be made.
The number of telegrams sent by the British Monarch to 100 year olds has risen from 24 in 1917 to nearly 7,000 today. It is projected that the number of centenarians (people who live to 100 years old and beyond) will continue to skyrocket by more than 10 fold over the next 30 years1 (when the NHS will also celebrate its 100 birthday). This growth is due to the higher birth rate between the first and second world wars and dramatic improvements in health and healthcare.
But the picture across our population is far from uniform. UK average life expectancy is now 81, but this masks huge disparities with the wealthiest households expected to live 20 years longer than those in the most deprived areas.
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