When it comes to those wider determinants of health both central and local government have to take responsibility for age friendly housing, communities fit and safe for people to grow old in, fuel poverty, adequate pension settlements, education, decent workplace conditions and adequate pension provision.
Britain will largely escape such problems because it sharply scaled back increases in state pensions in the 1980s though at the price of more pensioners in poverty.However, pensions are not the only extra costs that countries with ageing populations will face.
The population suffers from relatively high rates of poverty and pensions form the primary source of income for most of the families there, according to the Georgian government.
Needless to say, the topics covered in this issue are not exhaustive, and work is already under way on a new set of topics—including poverty, crime, pensions, and labor markets that we expect to publish in 2017.
The Radio 5Live discussion drew a wide range of opinions on issues from poverty to pensions and tourism to Trident with many inside Glasgow market expressing their wish for more information.
Low pay and poverty-level pensions are issues that require urgent ministerial attention.
What we will have instead is more inequality, an escalating buy-to-let boom, more pensioner poverty, lower annuity-based pensions for those who chose them, less home-ownership and less infrastructure investment.
The disclosure will be embarrassing coming days ahead of the publication of the government's Pensions White Paper that will propose raising the retirement ages for both men and women to 68 to alleviate widespread pension poverty.
As I explain in detail in my book, one of the factors driving America's pension poverty is shrinking pension coverage: only about 13% of the population is covered by one, compared to 44% in the mid-1970s.
We're not the only nation facing pension poverty: Europe's Boomers are in a pickle as well, as a result of rising life expectancies and low birthrates.
