However, we ought to be pleased about this, not worried! Nowadays most people aged 65+ will lead healthy and active lives for another 20 years or more and will not be the burden on the community that Coun Seldon envisages. Only about 4 per cent will need care homes. Loss of mobility is a greater problem but this could be met – at far lower cost – by ensuring that there is more suitable housing (bungalows, flats with lifts etc) and more support within each community to enable older people to live in their own homes, as most would prefer. I suggest Coun Seldon’s group revisit two excellent papers prepared by Herefordshire Council officials in the past – Herefordshire Older People’s Housing Strategy and Pathway of 2015 and Older People’s Integrated Needs Assessment of 2018.