If you want to know how old people are esteemed in our society, you only need to look at this article in the Daily Express about Alzhiemers. £289 per head is spent on cancer research; only £11 is spent per head on dementia research. This is despite the fact that there are more than 700 000 sufferers in the UK and rising. Can I give you all a word of advice; don't save money, don't buy your house, don't pay National Insurance, don't work; instead blow it all on a trip round the world just before you're 60 and then defy the government to do something about it.
