Britain's Forgotten Pensioners | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries

One in five pensioners - 2.1 million people - live in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet.

Includes discussions of mental health and suicide.

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