Simon Katich’s management was advised he could sue Cricket Australia under age discrimination laws after being controversially axed from the contracted players list. The opening batsman has one of the best records in world cricket, but is convinced he was dropped because he will be 36 this summer. Katich told his management to drop any…

Age, sex and wealth all affect how likely your GP is to refer you for a specialist appointment, a study has concluded. A UK team analysed data for 130,000 patients, reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal. Older people were less likely to be referred for three common symptoms, with sex and deprivation also…

He once claimed to have liberated Kabul. Now, John Simpson is facing a different kind of war much closer to home: ageism at the BBC. Many female correspondents have railed against age discrimination and now it is the turn of the men. “There are not many of us left,” said Simpson, the Corporation’s 65-year-old world…

Viewing entries in Yorkshire Post People aged over 50 are spending an increasingly large proportion of their income on basic items such as fuel and food, according to a new study. The independent pension expert and former adviser to Tony Blair advocates a renewed fight against age discrimation to help defuse the pensions ‘time bomb’.…

A new academic report, co published by The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) explores the reflections, projections and interpretations of work and career to date of people approaching 60. Margaret Christopoulos, Continuing Professional Development Co-ordinator for the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby (a TAEN member) undertook the report entitled: “What…

The new BBC director-general, George Entwistle, has told Miriam O’Reilly, the presenter who won a landmark age discrimination case against the corporation, that he wants her to return to screens in a prominent presenting role. Mr Entwistle, whose appointment was announced on Wednesday, has written to Ms O’Reilly, 55, expressing his desire for the former…

Those between the ages of 50 and 60 have been worst hit by the economic turmoil, suffering from a significant decline in their quality of life, according to an in-depth report into the finances and wellbeing of older citizens.  The report, published by the Saga group, found that the generation coming up to retirement have…

Today’s 20-year-olds are three times more likely to live to 100 than their grandparents and twice as likely as their parents, official figures show. And a baby born in 2011 is almost eight times more likely to reach their 100th birthday than one born 80 years ago. A girl born this year has a one-in-three…

A generation of pensioners face lives of poverty and loneliness, without enough money even to heat their own homes, says the first report on life for the over-60s in austerity Britain. The future for many of the country’s older people is bleak, according to the Age UK report Agenda for Later Life, to be published…

Pensions economist and former government adviser, Ros Altmann, has astounded her many fans by accepting the role of director general of Saga. The veteran pensions expert, best known for her tireless campaign for the 140,000 workers who lost their company pensions after 1997, is to take up her new post in October. To its credit,…