Older people have paid the most into our NHS yet are often denied cancer treatment, barred from drug trials, and see their mental health neglected

Older people have paid the most into our NHS yet are often denied cancer treatment, barred from drug trials, and see their mental health neglected When retired engineer Gregory Kay was admitted to a nursing home aged 66, six weeks before he died, he was taking 930 pills a month — 31 pills every day.

Gregory had been diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006 and had been on medication ever since, says his widow Mary, 70, a writer and mother-of-four with five grandchildren, from Southsea, Hampshire. The Daily Mail