Most councillors in local government are no spring chickens. With an average age of 60 or more, they are part of a medical triumph. In 1919, most of them would have already died in their early 50s.

Ipsos MORI has just produced its latest generational analysis on The Future of Ageing. While growing older is typically portrayed as a ‘narrative of decline', in fact old age is much more misunderstood than are ‘Millennials'.