When the NHS was founded people were told that they would be cared for from the cradle to the grave, no-one was told that they would receive an inferior service as they grew older.
There is a lack of money but a lot of money is wasted on pen-pushers fiddling the statistics for the government. Go to any public NHS meeting and hear the NHS lies being disproved by members of the public.
The NHS workforce is predominately young, therefore 60 is old, 70 aged, 80 ancient and 90 or over prehistoric but what the workforce forget is that they will, hopefully, reach these ages and be refused treatment, will they accept that ? NO they will howl with protest just like the older people today.