Thousands of elderly people who live alone in Greater Manchester are going without central heating amidst the ever-growing cost of living crisis.
Age UK described the findings, which have been released as part of new analysis of census 2021 data by the PA news agency, as being “of tremendous concern” and warned of “potentially serious consequences” for older people’s health and wellbeing.
There were 3.1 million one-person households aged 65 and over in England and Wales on March 21, 2021, the day of the census, and 66,027 of those had no central heating, which is often used as an indicator of deprivation. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community In Greater Manchester, the data found that out of the 148,819 of one-person households aged 65 and over, there were 3,132 homes - around 2.1% - without central heating.
In Manchester, 2.9% of the 19,805 such households had no central heating, a figure higher than in Wolverhampton, Southampton and Nottingham.
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