Experts warn older people get worse care than younger patients in the NHS
By 2030 there will be 50 per cent more people over-65s, and the number of 85-year-olds will have doubled.
Half of babies born after 2007 will live beyond 103, Professor Sarah Harper from the University of Oxford said.
‘The combination of a bulge in our population taking advantage of increases in life expectancy means that I think 8 million people currently will make it to a century,’ she told the committee.
‘One of the things we did at Oxford was do some simple modelling to extrapolate it to Europe, which said there will be 127 million people who are going to make it to 100 throughout the EU.’
Official projections for the number of centenarians in the UK shows the number could reach 550,000 by 2065
The number of people alive who could expect to see their 100th birthday, by age in 2010
