By Sue Cook

We hear a lot about the “ageing population” as though it’s a national problem.

But what if we saw it instead as one of our greatest untapped resources? Older people have a lifetime of experience, reliability, and skill - yet too often they’re made to feel invisible, as though their contribution no longer matters.

I am often confronted with just how long I’ve been working. My phone regularly pings on a Monday night when I pop up on another Call My Bluff repeat!

I’m impressed by the younger me on the screen. But I’m aware that she’s lacking the perspective and the experience that I’ve built up in the years since those 1980s recordings.

I’m not alone in that. There are many like me with much to offer the workplace, the economy, and the Chancellor as she prepares her Budget.

Across the country, people in their sixties and seventies are still doing extraordinary things.........

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