Britain is sleepwalking into a pension crisis. One in five of us isn’t saving anything into a personal pension. Are you? Around 80% have no idea how much they’ll actually need to fund their retirement. Britain’s Great Pension Crisis with Michael Buerk, Channel 5 2019
A series of financial scandals have seen pensioners lose a lifetime of savings in retirement. ibid.
Over 10% of people over the age of 65 are still working. ibid.
Savers could be losing around £2 billion in pension scandals. ibid.
There’s a pension time-bomb set to explode in Britain over the next decade. With 20% of British workers not saving anything for their pension, the number of people living out their retirement in poverty is set to soar. Already, 90% of people on low incomes are relying exclusively on the government to fund their retirement. With over 1.5 million pensioners forced to keep working beyond retirement age, will you have to work till you drop. Britain’s Great Pension Crisis with Michael Buerk II
Just the idea that I would ever lose this man is too much to bear. He’s my dad. He’s such an open accepting person. That’s who you want for a father. And that’s who I have. Who I’ve always had my entire life. But now it’s upon us – the beginning of his disappearance, and we’re not accepting it. He’s a psychiatrist, I’m a camera person. I suggested we make a movie about him dying – he said yes. Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson director, Netflix 2020
In South Korea they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence. Alice Walker
Over 3.7 million over-45s go raving once a week in the UK. And there has been a 518% increase in over-60s being treated for cocaine-related issues since ten years ago. High Society: The Geriatric Ravers Still Smashing Drugs: Gravers, Youtube 22.25, Vice TV 2022
What effect does this lifestyle have on an ageing body? ibid.
2.1 million UK pensioners are living in poverty. Dispatches: Britain’s Forgotten Pensioners, Channel 4 2023
‘You either eat or put your heating on.’ ibid.
3 in 5 over-65s says they have had their heating on for less time than usual … 15% of over-65s say they have turned off their heating completely: this equates to more than 1.8 million older people. ibid. captions
45 people died every day last winter in England and Wales as a result of living in cold homes. National Emergency Action fears this winter the number will be higher. ibid.