I am going to be 60 this year, please tell me what I can get!

[WinterGardening]

Because in my mind I am still 37, it hasn't occurred to me that actually, this year, there is a load of free shit I can get when I'm 60!

Pls inform me of what I can benefit from. Buses? Trains?

prescriptions in England are free regardless of age for a few chronic conditions, hypothyroidism being one of them, probably the commonest. It’s a rather anachronistic anomaly in some ways - if you have any one of the listed conditions you get all your prescriptions free.
And I’ve had free eye tests since I was 40 because DF had glaucoma.

Indeed. I've had free prescriptions due to hypothyroidism since I was 30, so for 35 years. I see the point for the Levo, but not for everything else. At 65 I still work and earn a very healthy salary and regardless of the hypothyroidism, do not need free prescriptions.

The system needs review. It is unfair that people with hypo get free prescriptions but those with asthma and diabetes do not. My onky objection is due to the fact that prescriptions for levo are raised wvery two months and a orescription charge woukd come with that. Stable hypothyroidism does not need more than annual monitoring.

Small over 60 breakfast from Morrisons , I think 😂🤣😂

Diabetes is on the list, it’s odd asthma isnt

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs/medical-exemption-certificates

The NT O-60s discount:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/membership/senior-membership

https://apple.news/Ao5WQJAhWQceMFDb4YOCK6A

Link to Heat magazine the Secret perks of turning 60

Discount in Iceland on a Tuesday afternoon.

Not long after your 60th birthday you get sent an intriguing package from the NHS in the post which contains all you need to check your bowel health. It means sending off a poo sample in a tiny pot. Oh the joys!!

I got that for my 55th birthday!

You've been jibbed. I have had two of those pre 60, so 50 and 55.

Ah yes I was forgetting that. I understood the general free prescriptions for diabetics to be due to their increased risk of other ailments, presumably that is the logic for the other eligible chronic conditions?

I have chronic conditions which are not covered by this scheme, but the season ticket saved money over the year.

I qualifed for free eye tests due to DF having glaucoma although his was not the type which is heritable. My optician said that as the vast majority is heritable it probably wouldn’t make economic sense to filter out the non heritable kind.

In general I find it interesting that where I’ve used insurance backed healthcare schemes (state supported and non state supported) routine medical checks are included in the cover and much more frequent - the annual medical being normal practice from relatively young. These are commercial businesses who have done the sums and save money by catching things early (and the annual reminders of good health practices probably don’t hurt). In the UK these don’t exist in the same way unless you pay for them privately or work for a company which provides them.