"Boom, Boom Boom, Boom, I'm Gonna Turn 65!"

The Department of Work and Pensions this week released figures showing that, surprise surprise, we're set for a huge rise in pensioners over the next couple of years as 1946/47s coterie of 'baby-boomers' turn 65. By the way, as far as I can see, depending on which set of stats one is looking at; the baby boomer generation stretches from the point at which Operation Barbarossa saw the Nazi's invade Russia (1941) to the beginning of the inexorable decline in quality of the Rolling Stones' output in the early 1970s, which I find a bit wierd, I thought a 'generation' was about 20 years long. Anyway, 'whatever', as folk say nowadays. These new stats, while interesting, are of limited use since we have known about the huge rise in the population of older people for years now. What's more interesting is what we are going to do about it. I've blogged about that too much to repeat myself again - prevention is better than cure and volunteering keeps you fit and healthy is all I'll say this time - but if you check out past blogs you'll get the idea. Enjoy!