To be a pensioner

earnings of any developed country

Around 1.9 million are living in poverty, and the proportion unable to afford a decent standard of living has risen sharply.

Four out of 10 over 65s have a longstanding illness, while social care spending has been cut by £6 billion since 2011

Pensioner homelessness has doubled in the same period.

Four million live in fuel poverty.

Add to that the widespread treatment of old people as children or a nuisance, and you get a very different picture to “never had it so good”.

Jan Shortt, NPC general secretary, says :”The UK is not the best place to grow older. We need a more balanced view of what life is like for pensioners in the 21st century.”

Hear, hear! To that.