Matt Hancock Quotes

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

In America, the old are neglected.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

I do not believe that older Americans should be forced to live out their lives in poverty, their tiny savings destroyed by illness. Dependent upon their relatives. Feeling unwanted by their country.

We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.