The increase is due to the increase in numbers of elderly, what @Eabhal is saying is that the risk to any individual elderly person is dropping. Statins, BP control etc all help with vascular aging, … (View Post)

Alzheimers. Though probably the apparent benefit was survival bias. Not many active smokers live long enough to get dementia. (View Post)

My NHS Trust recently bought a 100 bed Nursing Home to help with our discharges. The business case made sense even with our deficit. (View Post)

Not quite. It's perfectly possible to be UK born and be recorded as immigrating, if spent more than a year abroad. Indeed I have twice, and also been recorded as emigrating twice.l Then of course the… (View Post)

Yes, the language and tone were awful, and like Mays "Citizens of Nowhere" people won't look for nuances. (View Post)