Over the next 25 years, the population above the age of 85 will almost double. And yet, the trajectory we are on in terms of the financing and organisation of health and social care in older age is one that promises to merely deepen divides, both within generations and also across them. This is privatisation in two senses: in the foregrounding of care as a personal responsibility and in the marketisation of care.
The research on ageing is quite multivaried and interesting.
It is also very flawed.
They assigned 3 extra years to the boomer group to make it look bigger. All the culture groups have 15 years; boomers have 18. It is true that there were more born during those years, but by the time they hit 18, it was the same average per year as other groups.
By 2010 boomers were not even the highest or second highest aggregate. The highest was gen X by quite a way.
They omit that people have always voted less when they are young. The idea that boomers voted to rape the country during the Thatcher years holds no water.