The Rise of the Over 90’s

Care Aware
Oct 10, 2023
1 min read

Despite the Covid pandemic hitting the eldest hardest, there has also been a huge rise in the number of people aged 90 or over. There are now more than half a million over-90s, up a quarter in just a decade.

Source Office of National Statistics

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