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Think tank welcomes decision to move quicker on care and pensions
- Monday, 18 March 2013
Responding to today's announcements on pensions and social care by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baroness Greengross, Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre-UK said:
"The Chancellor's decision to push pension and social care reform forward quicker than previously announced is extremely welcome. One in three of us will need care in old age so it is vital we progress policy to deliver a better and fairer care funding regime.
Care is a life-course issue and ILC-UK urges Government to also focus attention on child care in this week's Budget. Getting care right is vital to the economy. When care is unobtainable or unaffordable, it unnecessarily pulls both younger and older people out of the workforce.
We desperately need protective legislation for vulnerable, elderly people
- Monday, 18 March 2013
I am a 71 year old married parent of three sons, two of whom are twins aged 40 with learning disability and epilepsy.
I am also the sole advocate for a profoundly disabled brother aged 70 who has lived in a Liverpool care home for the past 15 years. He was recently mugged in the street at 11 o'clock in the morning only 50 yards away from his care home! This shameless and brutal offender was never brought to justice.
We're all still human beings
- Friday, 15 March 2013
I am all for raising money to ease the lives of lonely, older people. But the real and urgent problem that has been in the news so much recently is the way some of the older people are treated in our hospitals and care homes.
True it seems to be worse now, but it has been a problem for many years. A big factor now is the lack of suitably trained staff.
Ageing Britain - Call for Minister for Older People
- Friday, 15 March 2013
“Over a year ago, a petition was handed to Number 10 by Anchor with 137,000 signatures calling for a Minister for Older People to be appointed in Government.
"We still lack one person in Cabinet who is responsible for looking at older people’s needs across the board, taking a holistic approach to preparing for issues that are faced by older people today, as well as future generations.
“The Government desperately needs to move quickly on this issue.
Home is central to older people’s quality of life
- Friday, 15 March 2013
A high profile Alliance of national organisations has broadly welcomed the Select Committee Report on Public Service and Demographic Change whilst calling for a stronger approach to integrating housing strategy with health and care proposals.
The Housing and Ageing Alliance applauds the extent to which the Lords report has mentioned the key role of housing in accommodating all aspects of demographic change.
Wealthy pensioners could be taxed on benefits to help growth
- Thursday, 14 March 2013
Dr Ros Altmann, a savings and investment expert and former Government policy adviser, says money belonging to savers and pensioners can play an important part in revitalising Britain’s economy.
She wants a Budget where wealthy pensioners are taxed on benefits such as Winter Fuel Payments, and pension or insurance funds are used to fund projects for growth.
Elderly deeply concerned about proposed cuts
- Thursday, 14 March 2013
New figures published today have revealed that Britain’s elderly population is deeply concerned about proposed cuts to some universal benefits in the Chancellor’s Budget next week.
The government is considering reducing universal pensioner benefits as a measure to shrink the UK’s financial deficit.
However, a nationwide survey of over 65s has revealed 76% think this is unfair, rising to 89% in the North East. Over 40% think other areas of government expenditure should be reduced first.
Housing needs of older people are not being met
- Thursday, 14 March 2013
McCarthy & Stone, Britain’s leading builder of retirement apartments, welcomes the publication of today’s Ready for Ageing? report by the House of Lords Committee on Public Service & Demographic Change. As well as submitting a statement, Gary Day, Land & Planning Director of McCarthy & Stone, appeared at the committee’s evidence session.
The report confirms that the overall housing market is delivering much less specialist housing for older people than is needed.
Society is in denial of the inevitability of ageing
- Thursday, 14 March 2013
Baroness Greengross, Chief Executive of ILC-UK responds to the House of Lords Public Service and Demographic Change Committee, Ready for Ageing?
Baroness Greengross said:
“Our society is in denial of the inevitability of ageing. We have put off the difficult decisions for far too long.
The Public Service and Demographic Change Committee argues that there has been a lack of vision and coherence in the ageing strategies of successive governments. This cannot continue.
More Articles...
- Fuel Poverty Charity Welcomes Recognition of Needs of Fuel Poor
- Consumers not getting a fair deal on pensions
- CQC update shows good progress but failings are still there
- Still too many older people who don't complain about NHS
- Only 1 in 10 think age discrimination law has helped them get work
- Older people in Britain spend equivalent of over 100 days alone annually
- iPads can help improve the emotional wellbeing of older people in care homes
- Invisibility of older women exposed
- A staggering 2.3 million quitting work to care
