Centenarians

EDM number 125 in 1997-98, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 17/06/1997.

That this House congratulates DGAA Homelife on commissioning and publishing an interview study with 100 centenarians living throughout the United Kingdom; believes that the study will provide essential information that will influence future thinking and policy making on housing, health needs and provision of care for this rapidly growing age sector; notes that the number of centenarians has grown from 271 in 1951,the year before Her Majesty the Queen came to the throne, to 4,400 in 1991 and 8,000 today; recognises that the numbers are projected to rise further to 30,000 by the year 2030; and congratulates DGAA Homelife, founded as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year of 1897, on reaching its own 100th birthday this year.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.