Elderly?

I’d been thinking the same myself.

Very true - yet they expect retired doctors to volunteer in the crisis - funny that!

Absolutely!

I said exactly the same?

Brilliant - thanks Lucca!

Contradictions if it suits them!

Exactly!WASPI and sandwich generation here.I would love to know how I can simultaneously protect myself as an 'elderly' person whilst caring for my very frail mum and grandchildren so DD can work in frontline healthcare.

When I worked in child health, it used to 'amuse' me that government spokespersons trumpeted how much it cost them to keep a child in care - and yet parents got only a fraction of that.

As I’m 60 and still have to do the daily grind, I’d be more than happy for them to decide now that I’m too vulnerable and give me my state pension today! Double standard governments.

I would love to stay home, but would my workplace pay me, and who would look after my very elderly mum and grandchildren? I suspect know one.

Absolutely agree don’t forget the retired nurses they want to volunteer the very group they shafted.

There is talk that the government will support, by law, those that switch their current jobs to help out the NHS albeit on a temporary basis. As my job will probably be on hold because of its nature I am interested in this, but certainly not medically qualified. I am
Also in my early 60s.....

duh! to the Government, or those civil servants who decide what the Government will do.

It’s a bit insulting isn’t it?

Sixty is by no means elderly.

I guess it was defined as such by a thirty something!!

To them fifty is elderly!!

Whichever way you look at it they're all out to see us off. Work until you drop---help out in the hope that you'll catch the virus, and drop. They've got a bloomin' cheek.

We're nuisances !

I am 63. While I will admit to not being a spring chicken, I hate to be called elderly. To me, elderly is 75+. Before that maybe we can be "seniors".

I also read the government are thinking of banning over 70s going to premier league football matches. But what about the over 70s going to lower league matches ie championship. Do they not matter.

Elderly is someone who is five years older than me.

I am 76 and do not feel elderly. I agree it is double standards when it suits. If we are more susceptible, more may catch the coronavirus and yippee, fewer pensions to pay.

Yes they certainly contradict themselves. The state pension is allegedly a ‘benefit’ but not so when applying for anything available for those in receipt of a ‘benefit’

I suspect that elderly always mean quite a lot older than me

Seems that the government are going for 70 as elderly. This suits as they want people to work untill 68+

Hmm I agree with all the above. Also if retired doctors and nurses are brought back we are generally 60 plus therefor apparently more susceptible surely? I now work longer hours looking after DGC than I worked in NHS so won't be able to help.

Gummie, why should the Government give anybody anything for childcare? Whilst as mother of 6 it has been lovely to receive child benefit, it was our choice to have children.
I am incensed though that I have paid into a pension plan since I was 18 yet I now have to wait for a full 7 years longer than the terms I signed up to. A private pension fund would never get away with that.