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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 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 action learning sets
 - 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 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE
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associations & societies
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THE ABBEYFIELD SOCIETY

ACTION ON ELDER ABUSE

AGE CARE

AID FOR THE AGED

ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED AND PERSONS OVER 50  (ARPO50)

BETTER GOVERNMENT FOR OLDER PEOPLE (BGOP)
 - Older People's Advisory Group (OPAG)

BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
 - Age and Ageing (Oxford Journals)
 - Standards of Medical Care for Older People: Expectations and Recommendations (rev. 2003)

BRITISH SOCIETY OF GERONTOLOGY

BRUNEL CARE

CARERS UK

CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING (CPA)
 - CPA publications

THE COMPACT - "the agreement between government and the voluntary and community sector in England to improve their relationship for mutual advantage"

CONTACT THE ELDERLY

ELIZABETH FINN CARE

THE EMPLOYERS FORUM ON AGE

EXTRACARE CHARITABLE TRUST

THE HOUSING CORPORATION
 - Housing for Older People

THE LAW SOCIETY
  - Older People

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
  - Older People Shared Priority

LOW INCOMES TAX REFORM GROUP (LITRG)
  - Tax Help - pensioners
 - see also TAXHELP FOR OLDER PEOPLE (TOP)

MIND
  - older people

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROVIDERS OF ACTIVITIES FOR OLDER PEOPLE (NAPA)
 - has Newsletter

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION (NAVCA) - formerly NACVS

NATIONAL BENEVOLENT FUND FOR THE AGED

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONFEDERATION - "Our core membership covers all types of statutory NHS organisation[s]. Our members are the organisations themselves... represented by individuals from board level – chief executives, chairs, non-executives and directors. We also have an affiliate membership scheme for commercial and not-for-profit organisations providing frontline services on behalf of the NHS."
 - Why we need fewer hospital beds (22 May 2006)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION (NIACE)
 - publishes Older & Bolder (newsletter), has briefing sheets relating to older people (eg, 67 Adult education working in care settings; 68 Learning in later life - moving into 2006)
 - Older people and mentoring

NATIONAL PENSIONERS' CONVENTION
  - The Nationwide Age Referendum

OLDER PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE UK (OPAAL UK)

THE PENSIONS ADVISORY SERVICE

THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS (ROSPA)
  - Accidents to older people

ROYAL UNITED KINGDOM BENEFICENT ASSOCIATION (RUKBA) - helping elderly people stay independent

SENIORITY

SHELTERED HOUSING NETWORK

SUPPORTLINE
  - older people page

TAXHELP FOR OLDER PEOPLE (TOP)
  - see also LOW INCOMES TAX REFORM GROUP - Tax Help - pensioners

UK COALITION ON OLDER HOMELESSNESS

UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A)
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ACTION ON ELDER ABUSE

AGE CONCERN

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 - CARING FOR CARERS

ELDERLY ACCOMMODATION COUNCIL

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FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY

HELP THE AGED
  - Campaigns & issues
 - see also under forums for older people, internet use, web design & older people and information sources, portals & research

HOUSINGCARE.ORG

INDEPENDENTAGE (Royal United Kingdom Benificent Association) - "provides regular payments and befriending to over 6,5000 beneficiaries"

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

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CHARITY CHOICE > Charity Search > Charity Category: Aged - Charity Choice is "the encyclopaedia of charities on the internet"
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forums for older people/ seniors
 ...not a list of older people's forums, but a list of those with websites known to the webmaster. Others are getting websites all the time: if you know of any, please let him know.  Omitted: sites maintained by local authorities (.gov.uk) or by other organisations, like Age Concern or CVSs - these are often news items about forums; groups whose members are organisations or their representatives; pensioners' groups which appear mainly to consider pensions.
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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 People’s Forum
Evesham and District Older People's Forum

Elders Council of Newcastle
Enfield Borough Over 50s Forum

Gateshead Forum for Older People
 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

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

...AND IN POLAND
Forum 50+

 

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 - 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)
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CABINET OFFICE
 - Older People: Customer Group Director for Older People

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)
 - 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)
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

HOME OFFICE
 - crime: older people's experiences (research development statistics, December 2003)

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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AGE 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)

EAST SUSSEX OLDER PEOPLE'S WEB - a County-wide variant of www.olderpeoplesweb.org.uk

FINANCINGRETIREMENT

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

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 INFORMATION NETWORK - Coventry area