Canada Life research findings
68 average expectation
Record numbers of people aged 90 plus
Willis Towers Watson has developed the first widely-available mortality model to use medical science and the views of medical experts to improve predictiveness.
Legal & General has upgraded its term assurance products and terminal illness cover (TIC).
The NHS currently ‘wastes' £3.3bn keeping elderly patients in hospital when the money would be better spent on a Fast Track Discharge Fund to move them into care homes, a report has urged.
Council tax rises to pay for social care in 2016/17 will not alleviate growing pressures on the services caring for the elderly and disabled, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
A report saying that with deaths likely to rise, funeral costs will also increase is ‘spot on', according to Royal London.