Our View: Urgent action needed for elderly care

Various issues relating to pensioners have been pushed to the fore recently, mainly due to the deaths of several elderly people from heatstroke.

Leaving aside that according to the Lancet in 2021, for every older person who dies from heat-related causes globally, nine die as a result of health conditions brought on by the cold but this generally slips by under the public’s radar as it does not generate the same kinds of headlines.

This past week, organisations representing...