Same figures, same story of the UK failing the aged

The report entitled 'Excluded Older People', published yesterday by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Social Exclusion Unit, reveals close to one-third of people living in ‘non-decent’ homes are over 60, while 20,000 penseioners die though the winter each year. It says: “What our consultation told us is that since 1996/97 there have been pronounced falls in the proportion of pensioners below low-income thresholds.” The ODPM adds that Government is spending £10bn extra on benefits compared to the 1997 system, a great deal of which is still not being claimed, while 2.1 million pen...