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Define 'Older People'

Q1: If the aim is to arrive at an ‘age neutral’ approach to all people of working age, does it make any sense to continue to define ‘older people’ as those being aged 50+ ?

After 200 days, the results were:

Yes: 10.53%
No: 89.47%
 

Q2: If we must use 'age' as a determinant for public policy purposes, then at what threshold age should we start to consider people as being 'older' ? Would it be better to peg it to State Pension Age (SPA) so that if SPA increases, the definition of when 'older' age begins shifts with it ?

After 200 days, the results were:

Yes: 76.57%
No: 23.43%
 

Q3: Or should we fall in line with other European Governments and just shift the threshold to 55 ?

After 200 days, the results were:

Yes: 24.44%
No: 75.56%

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