Key points from article :
By 2050, world’s over-65s will outnumber the under-15s, a history-first.
Healthcare expenditure will become impossibly high or care standards unacceptably low.
Over 40% of UK’s NHS budget goes on the over-65s.
Spending on a patient aged mid-80s is >7 times higher that on someone in their mid-30s.
British gov't target: “for everyone to have +5 years of healthy, independent life by 2035.
And to narrow the bad gap between the richest and the poorest.
24% fewer of the poorest British people are in good health relative to the richest.
This is compared with New Zealand and France where the gap is only 5%-10%.
Stop smoking, drink less acohol, exercise, maintain healthy weight, adviced.
Only 5% of NHS budget goes on prevention, key targets are for treating disease.
Took 50 years to establish that senescent cells cause ageing, >5 to develop drug for it.
