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Richard Ford, Home Correspondent & ,}

The UKs fast ageing race is set to enlarge the series of over 65s by dual thirds in dual decades to some-more than fifteen million.

More than a fifth of the race will be over 65 by 2031 with big increases in the series of the really old, according to central total published today.

The greying of the nation will move outrageous hurdles for governments as they seek to yield a caring complement to await and caring for the elderly.

People over 50 already have up at slightest a entertain of the race in each of the regions in the country, with the top commission in the normal retirement area of the South West.

The series of people elderly 65 and over is projected to climb from 9.6 million in 2006 to 15.7 million in 2031. Those elderly 75 and over will climb by 77 per cent from 4.6 million to 8.2 million and those elderly 85 and over will climb by 131 per cent from 1.2million to 2.8 million.

Age UK, the gift operative for comparison people, pronounced that the fast ageing population meant that politicians had to residence amicable caring for the elderly as a priority.

Social caring for the elderly is the big amicable process issue of the time. We have an ageing race and their needs are not going to go away. They system we have cannot cope, a mouthpiece said.

The mouthpiece pronounced some-more indispensable to be finished to concede comparison people to go on working together with abolishing forced retirement.

She pronounced homes would need to be built to concede elderly residents to sojourn in them as prolonged as probable with wider doors for wheelchair entrance and electricity sockets at waist tallness rather than nearby the floor.

In further to seeking after the earthy needs of old people, some-more concentration would need to be since to their romantic and mental well being, she said. It would embody ensuring that they were not removed and depressed.

The segment with the largest race elderly 50 and over was the South East, with 2.9 million or 35 per cent of the population. London and Northern Ireland had the lowest commission at twenty-six per cent and 31 per cent respectively. A net figure of roughly 25,000 people elderly 50 years and over left London in between midst 2007 and midst 2008.

The South West, the East, the South East, the East Midlands and Wales were the biggest beneficiaries of the inner emigration of over 50s, according to the Office for National Statistics report.

The collateral had the top proportions of men and women elderly 65 years and older who were singular and never tied together in 2008 compared with alternative UK regions, as well as the top suit of divorced and distant people in this age group.

Paul Vickers, emissary head of the centre for informal and internal census data at the ONS, said: London has the top suit of singular men and women aged 65 years and over, so sort of indicating that the emigration itself might be between tied together couples who are rebuilt to quit together since single people probably wish to stay put.