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AUDIT COMMISSION
- Living well in later life (Healthcare, Audit and Social Care Inspection Commissions, 27 March 2006)
- Older people - independence and well-being: the challenge for public services (2004)
CARE
QUALITY COMMISSION
-
Care Quality Commission
statement on
the quality of adult social care
3 December 2009
- the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
acquired legal status this week. The CQC, combining the Healthcare Commission, the
Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission, will oversee
how some of the most vulnerable people are cared for.
From April 1 the CQC will be in charge of registering, investigating and assessing all NHS and private health and care-home
providers in England....
“We have to register all trusts for
standards on healthcare-associated infections from April 1, all hospital and social care
providers from April 2010 and then primary care from 2011.”
from
CARE OF ALL KINDS GETS A 'SUPER-WATCHDOG'
(David Rose, The Times, 3 October 2008)
-
Care Quality Commission (Department of Health, 16 November 2007)
CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
(CSIP)
- Older People's Mental
Health
CENTRE FOR POLICY ON
AGEING
- Single Assessment Process
COMMISSION FOR PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH (CPPIH)
- Patient and Public Involvement Forums
(PPIFs)
COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Families take the strain to find their own care (annual
State of Social Care report to Parliament, 10 January 2007)
- Real Voices, Real Choices:
the qualities people expect from care services (March 2006)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
(ESRC)
- Growing
Older (research programme on extending quality of life)
- Older People & lifelong learning
FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY (FSA)
- Eat
well, be well: Older people
HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- older
people search result
HEALTHCARE COMMISSION, AUDIT
COMMISSION AND COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Living well in later life (27 March 2006)
I&DeA KNOWLEDGE - the Improvement and Development Agency
- Older people
- Services for Older People
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE (NAO)
- Developing Effective Services for Older People (2003)
THE PENSIONS COMMISSION
- The
Turner Report (March 2006)
THE UK INQUIRY INTO
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AGE UK
AGE UK
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HELP THE AGED
AID FOR THE AGED IN DISTRESS
THE ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY
BETH JOHNSON FOUNDATION
- Changing the lives of children and
older people: intergenerational mentoring in secondary schools (Stephen J. Ellis,
2003)
BRITISH
COUNCIL FOR AGEING
CARE AND REPAIR ENGLAND
CARE FOR
THE CARERS (CFTC)
CARING CHOICES
THE
CINNAMON TRUST
- the national charity for the elderly and their pets: "8,000 volunteers 'hold
hands' with owners to provide vital loving care for their pets. We keep them together -
for example, we’ll walk a dog every day for a housebound owner, we’ll foster
pets when owners need hospital care...."
CONTACT THE ELDERLY
CROSSROADS
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ELDERLY
ACCOMMODATION COUNCIL
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PLUS
HELP THE AGED
- Campaigns & issues
- see
also under forums for older people, internet use, web
design & older people and information sources, portals &
research
HELP
THE HOSPICES
HOMESHARE
HOUSINGCARE.ORG
INDEPENDENTAGE (Royal
United Kingdom Benificent Association) - "provides regular payments and befriending
to over 6,5000 beneficiaries"
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- The needs and resources of older people: This study explores the
needs of people in later life, including expenditure, health, social networks, services,
housing and neighbourhood, as well as income.
- Older people's views and experiences of resources in
later life: This study explores how older people plan, use and value the resources
available to them.
KING'S FUND
- Securing
Good Care for Older People (Wanless
Social Care Review, King's
Fund, March 2006)
- background to the Wanless review (King's Fund,
March 2006)
- press release (King's Fund, 30 March 2006)
NATIONAL BENEVOLENT FUND FOR THE AGED
THE
PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST FOR CARERS
- old age
SOLICITORS FOR THE ELDERLY
THE
WONDERBUS (Paul Zenon) - "The
Wonderbus takes older people in homes and sheltered housing on trips to see live
entertainment."
WRVS
"WRVS provides a range of services to help people in need
who might otherwise feel lonely and isolated. Volunteers... - nearly 60,000 of them - both
men and women - give up their time to help other people and to make life better in their
communities. WRVS are looking for people interested in doing voluntary work and
being a hospital
volunteer."
see also national associations & societies and
CHARITY CHOICE >
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you know of any, please let him know. Omitted: sites maintained by local
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Blackburn with Darwen Older
People’s Forum
Brighton & Hove Older People's Council
Bristol Older People's
Forum
Bromsgrove & District Action Group for Older People
Caerphilly50+
Forum/Fforwm 50+ Caerffili
Cambridge Older People's Enterprises
Cannock Seniors
Carmarthenshire
50-plus Forum
Carmarthenshire
Older People's Partnership
Devon
Pensioners Action Forum
Droitwich
Spa Area Forum for Older People
Eastbourne Seniors Forum
Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older Peoples'
Forum
East Sussex Seniors
Association (ESSA)
comprised of the seven East Sussex seniors'
forums:
Eastbourne,
Hastings
& St Leonards,
Lewes,
Meridian,
Rother, Seaford and
Wealden
Evesham and District Older People's Forum
Elders Council of Newcastle
Enfield Borough Over 50s
Forum
Gateshead Older Peoples Assembly
Greater
London Forum for Older People
Greater
Pollokshaws Seniors Forum
Grey Wolves,
Wolverhampton Branch
Hastings
& St Leonards Seniors' Forum
Highland
Senior Citizens Network
Leeds
Older People's Forum
Lewes District Seniors Forum
Lincolnshire Seniors Forum- includes
Malvern Hills
District Older People's Forum
Medway Pensioners Forum
Meridian
Mature Citizens' Forum
Newcastle-under-Lyme 50+ Forum
Nuneaton
& Bedworth Older Peoples Forum
Older People’s Forum – North Tyneside
Pershore
& District Older People's Forum
Redditch
Older People's Foruml
Shropshire Association of
Senior Citizens Forums - includes
South
& West Dorset Senior
Forums' Association
South West Seniors Network
- includes 33 forums
Southampton Pensioners
Forum
Strathclyde Elderly
Forum
Swadlingcote District
50+ Forum
Telford & Wrekin
Senior Citizens Forum
Torfaen Older People's Forums
Wandsworth
Pensioners' Forum
Wealden Senior Citizens'
Partnership
West of
Scotland Seniors Forum
Wolverhampton
Over 50s Forum
Worcester City Forum for Older People
Wyre Forest Older People's Forum
CHANGING AGEING
PARTNERSHIP (CAP)
"The Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP)
brings together Age Concern Northern Ireland, Help the Aged in Northern Ireland,
Queen’s University Belfast and the Workers’ Educational
Association....CAP’s vision is of a strong, informed voice capable of challenging
attitudes and approaches to ageing."
HELP THE AGED
- Forums
- Forum contacts
- Senior Citizens Forums a_voice_for_older_people
- Forum Newsline
SENIORS NETWORK
-
Senior Citizens'
Forums: a guide to help you get started!
- Seniors Community Websites &
Support Groups
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- BeGrand.net
- the website for grandparents
- SAGA Zone
- Create your own blog on SAGA Zone
- geriatric1927 (YOUTUBE) - Peter (Oakley)
- A mis 95 años (BLOGSPOT) -
(María) Amelia (López) - in Spanish (English translation provided) -
Amelia died on 20 May 2009
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disclaimerCABINET OFFICE
- Older
People: Customer Group Director for Older People
CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE
-
Policy for Prosecuting Crimes Against the Older Person (draft
consultation document, 7 November 2007; consultation now closed) and see
Age Concern response to the draft consultation document and
Gillian Connor, "Crime and older people" Magistrate
(March 2008). Article placed on
www.olderpeoplesweb.org.uk with permission of the author, Age
Concern and Magistrate.
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENT (DCLG)
- A Sure Start to
later life (Social Exclusion Unit Final Report, January 2006)
- Excluded
Older People (Social
Exclusion Unit Interim Report, 2005)
- older people (departmental
search results page)
- older people
(Neighbourhood Renewal Unit)
- Supporting People
DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE MEDIA AND
SPORT (DCMS)
- older people (Education and Social Policy)
DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH (DH)
- Building
the National Care Service - The White Paper 30 March 2010
- Launch of the National Care Service
Department of Health press
release
30 March 2010
- A recipe for care - not a single ingredient (Professor Ian Philp,
National Director for Older People, 29 January 2007)
- Older People's Services main page
- Partnerships for older people projects (POPP)
-
Evaluation of Your health, your care, your say (an independent report commissioned by the Department of
Health, 23 August 2006)
see Role axed
with dignity - "dignity nurses... scrapped" (The Times Online, 24 October
2006)
- Health &
Social Change Care Agent Team - housing reports on the elderly (Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
- A new ambition for old age: next steps in implementing the National Service
Framework for Older People (20
April 2006)
- End of life care progress report (11 April 2006)
- Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services (The White Paper, 30 January 2006)
- Your
health, your care, your say (consultation closed 4 November 2005)
- Better health in old age ("progress since 2001 under the National Service Framework for Older
People and... a vision for the future", report from Professor Ian Philp, 2 November 2004)
- Championing change for older people (March 2003)
- National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People (March 2001)
DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT (DfT)
- Older people's transport issues (2001)
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS (DWP)
- Independent review of older people's engagement
with government (John Elbourne, final report, DWP, 18
November 2008)
"The Government’s response to John Elbourne’s final
report will be announced by
30
January 2009"
THE PENSION SERVICE
- I am retired - Staying
Independent - published in hard
copy as Pensioners' guide - England and Wales (April/June 2006)
- Security in retirement: towards
a new pensions system
(The Pensions Reform White Paper
in full and in summary; the statement in the House of Commons; the
press release, DWP, 25 May 2006)
- Pensions Forum
- Building consensus
- Age Posi+ive -
Employment Equality (Age) Regulations
- The Pensions Commission Report (The Turner
Report, 30 November 2005 - with the BBC NEWS story )
- Opportunity Age -
Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st Century (March
2005)
DIRECT GOV
- Over 50s
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- Flooding: a guide for older people
EQUALITIES OFFICE
Voice of Older People Annual Report 2008/09
Dame Joan Bakewell, 16 November
2009 -
"supported by Government Equalities Office"
HOME OFFICE
- crime:
older people's experiences (research development statistics, December 2003)
HOUSE OF LORDS AND
HOUSE OF COMMONS
- The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare (Joint
Committee on Human Rights - Eighteenth Report of Session 2006-07, July/August 2007:HL
Paper 156-I, HC 378-I)
MAYOR OF
LONDON
- Valuing
Older People, the Mayor's Older People Strategy (September 2006)
NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR OLDER
PEOPLE - PHASE TWO
- A new ambition for old age: Next steps in implementing the National Service
Framework for Older People (Professor
Ian Philp, Department of Health, 20 April 2006)
- Government asks watchdogs to insure dignity is a priority in health and care
services (Department of
Health press release, 20 April 2006)
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disclaimerAGE AND AGEING (Oxford Journals for the British Geriatrics Society) - "an international journal publishing
refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and
gerontology"
THE AGE AND EMPLOYMENT
NETWORK
AGEBUSTERS - UK age discrimination legislation
AGINGOPPORTUNITIES.COM
- "news and information for geriatricians, gerontologists,
aging services and public health professionals
working in the field of aging"
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PEOPLE RESEARCH DATABASES
BANDOLIER - evidence-based healthcare journal
- older people
BBC NEWS
- Depression
in elderly people (BBC Health, 18 November 2006)
- Getting
older
BOING BOING
- People_are_happier_when
they're older? (13 June 2006, report on recent research)
BRIGHTON UNIVERSITY
- Wellbeing,
Health and Occupation Research Group older people related research (WHOOP), Clinical
Centre for Health Professions
BRITISH LIBRARY
- Internet Resources for
Older People
BRITISH
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING
CARE
AWARE - "a non profit making public information, advisory and
advocacy service specialising in elderly care funding advice in the UK"
CARE DIRECTIONS - a commercial company/website
THE CARE DIRECTORY
CENTRE FOR
AGEING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND (CARDI)
CENTRE
FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- AgeInfo
- National Database on
Ageing Research (NDAR)
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF LIBRARY
AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
- Library and Information Services for Older People
COUNSEL
+ CARE for older people, their families and carers
(coalition of 15 organisations, mainly
charities)
DENTAL COMPLAINTS SERVICE -
free service for
complaints about private dental care. Set up and funded by the
General Dental Council.
EAST SUSSEX OLDER PEOPLE'S
WEB - a County-wide variant of www.olderpeoplesweb.org.uk
ERA-AGE European
Research Area in Ageing - "a five year project funded by the EC.... The aim of
ERA-AGE is to promote the development of a European strategy for research on ageing and,
thereby, to enable Europe to gain maximum added value from investment in this field.
ERA-AGE comprises twelve partners who are each public authorities responsible for the
funding and coordination of national research programmes. In addition, there are three
associate partner organisations to enable and maximise the sharing of experiences and good
practice. The network is coordinated by the UK representative, The New Dynamics of Ageing
Programme, and it is supported by a steering group comprising of research managers,
scientists, representatives from the EC and AGE (The European Older People's
Platform)."
EUROPEAN MEN'S HEALTH FORUM
(EMHF) -
current project:
www.yourprostate.eu
from which men or
their partners can seek anonymous advice from specialist health
professionals in a private conversation.
FINANCINGRETIREMENT
FIRST
STOP advice for older people: care, housing, finance, rights
HELP THE AGED - RESEARCH INTO AGEING
I&DeA knowledge
- Assisting
Ageing Guide - "how the five beacon authorities in services
for older people are responding to these challenges" (July 2006)
information
NOW - Newcastle Older People's Website:
"services available in your local area and throughout Newcastle... information about
the issues that affect you and other local older people"
INTUTE - web-based resources
- older
people
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
GERIATRICS SOCIETY
KING'S INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY (KCL)
- Study of
Abuse and Neglect of Older People - Prevalence Survey Report
MATURE
TIMES
MATURITY
WORKS - "the recruitment site for employers and job
seekers who believe that talent and ambition matter more than age"
THE MERCK
MANUAL OF HEALTH AND AGEING
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
- NHS Direct: search results for "older people"
- Older People
Datasets (NHS Information Centre Older People Project)
NATIONAL
STATISTICS ONLINE
-
ageing
- Focus on
Older People
OLDER PEOPLE & AGEING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (OPAN Cymru)
OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUMS RESEARCH
- Meridian
Mature Citizens Forum, University of Brighton & University of
Sussex:
Growing older, being heard: mature citizens, consultation and participation
- draft findings report (January
2008) [received 27 February 2008] - "a research project undertaken with mature
citizens in the 'Meridian' area, of Newhaven, Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs, East Saltdean
and rural parishes between Newhaven and Lewes."
OLDER PEOPLE'S INFORMATION NETWORK -
Coventry area
OWL - TAMESIDE'S OLDER PEOPLE WEBSITE
THE OXFORD INSTITUTE OF AGEING
PATIENT UK - a commercial
company/website
- search: older people
PENSIONAGE
RESEARCH
INTO AGEING - a trust
within HELP THE AGED
ROYAL COLLEGE OF
PSYCHIATRISTS
- Older
People's Mental Health
SENIORMAG
- "Senior Home Care,
Assisted Living & Resources" - commercial
SENIORS NETWORK
- Seniors Network links
SILVERHAIRS
- the Pensioners' page
SILVER LINKS - a sister page to
this one, thematically organised
SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION
GATEWAY (SOSIG)
- older
people (internet resources)
STRATEGIC
PROMOTION OF AGEING RESEARCH CAPACITY (SPARC) - Second
annual report 2006-07
- Funding opportunities
UK AGE
RESEARCH FORUM
WESTMINSTER INFORMATION SERVICE
(WELDIS)
- database
for older people
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