Switzerland ranked best place to grow older - where is UK?

Sacre bleu, sineDie I have just read your link, and it would take a heck of a lot of Toblerone to make up for that!

Public sector pensions better in Germany, food better in France, weather better in Spain, wine better (OK debatable) in Italy (and they've got Inspector Montalbano) so why should I want to live in the UK?
Oh, forgot to say, it's home.
It's where the DC and the DGCs live and home is where the heart is!
(Plus, our TV is 500% better!)

It's a nice place for a holiday, we have had several there over the years,
But prefer to live here to any where actually, now that I think about it.

Well, I did forget Toblerone Alea ( though I did mention Chocolate.) So perhaps worth living there for that alone.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Switzerland

Sounds a right grim place to me

Re transport system which is still Nationalised and cherished as such- you can go on the Swiss plublic transport website and request info for a journey which will include trains, buses, boats and even some cog railways and cable cars- and get an integrated timetable, and a single ticket for your journey. In the UK, ever since the Blessed Margaret, there are so many railway companies, with about 100 different tarifs depending on date, day, time, special offer, blabla- and try and match up with buses and it is NOOOOOO. Our UK town had a bus station at the opposite side of the town to the railway station, with no shuttle in between- and the rail station served by a different bus station to the main one!

And try to get to anywhere rural in the UK and you can forget it- especially after 6pm or so! Our buses run to past midnight here and later at week-ends. If we come from the local large town to the main station down in the Valley, the bus is there waiting for the train to arrive to pick up anyone requiring a lift up to the villages higher up. Hurrah.

roses and Margaret- you obviously not lived in my part of Switzerland then - lol. Pesnstemmon I could discuss Swiss neutrality till the cos come home (with bells on) - it is a very interesting subject actually- and if we did discuss it, you may understand why neutrality made sense.

When I think of the difference in quality with OAP care homes in the UK (and I have a lot of experience in that, for all sorts of reasons) - depending on whether you have money or not- and the fact that quality of care here is the same whether one pays privately or the State pays- then I'd say the report is spot on. Health care is second to none and everyone has health insurance, paid privately is one can afford it, or State paid if one cannot. And as said above, the transport system is fabulous and totally integrated- and covers the remotest rural areas- with huge subsidies for OAPs. ETC. For me too, one great plus is that, if faced with a debilitating illness - we here have the choice to opt out and be supported in that process. Having said that, we may well return when older to be nearer our daughters and grandchildren- I'd be equally happy in our beloved UK (it is possible to love both here and there, and feel truly at home here or there) - and if necessary come back to Switzerland if the above is required- unless Dying in Dignity wins that battle, which I sincerely hope for.

Huge idfferences in climate for different parts of Switzerland, we get very cold temps here and lots of snow at high altitude- but there are plenty of places in Switzerland that do not and have a much more temperate climate- and much dryer than most of the UK.

Just don't get old.My very poorly husband was admitted to hospital last week,he spent the first 8 hours sat on a hard chair in the corridor.When I told the consultant ,he said contrary to anything you may here.the health service is in a very bad way.From what I hear,it mainly affects the elderly.

The Swiss have very good transport systems that runs precisely, on time. Something to do with precise clocks?
They don't let snow bring the country to a halt!

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Oh come on rosesarered, what about Toblerone?

I watched some of the rowing last weekend. It was in Switzerland, and looked beautiful. I could understand why people want to retire there.

Switzerland is a nice place to grow old if you don't die of boredom first.

Seriously I think their carers are trained like nurses and midwives, and are very good organisers.

She's the minister for people growing older, not actually just someone growing older. I am a bit worried that someone with her memory loss might forget what she is supposed to be doing.

Switzerland is good at.... Snow covered mountains, chocolate, and cuckoo clocks, and not a lot else.

Those pesky varmint Tories!

Politics..... Even in this thread eh?

That's the trouble with Tory ministers, they can't decide what to do.

What's that got to do with the OP anyway?

It's quite funny, actually

I presume she didn't actually vote in the Labour leadership election, unlike some others of her party and a great many more Greens...

Well, she was just hedging her bets wasn't she?

Anyway, what woman can make her mind up. Perhaps she was still thinking about it.

Too late for me, jingl.

Does anyone remember Roz Altmann coming on here to talk about pensions?

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/07/tory-minister-baroness-al_n_8100824.html?1441663552&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

What do you think to this?

I've only got 3.7 years of healthy life left.

Oh God! Where's that Fitbit - quick!!!

Best not look at the health domain then.

I was.

Er no. You can't top a 100%. I wasn't entering into a competition though.