“Poor people are more than twice as likely to die at any given age than their richer counterparts, according to a new study.”

“Living in the 21st century: older people in England is the most comprehensive in a study into the economic, social, psychological and health elements of the ageing process in Europe, and it follows the life experiences of a group of people born before 1952 through interviews at two year intervals. In the current research in 2006- 2007, 9971 people were interviewed.”

I’d be pissed if I followed folks for more than half a century and the most significant thing I could report is that poor people are more likely to die than rich people. Seriously? That’s all you got?

Telegraph.co.uk: Poor elderly people are twice as likely to die as the richest