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"Public consultation on seniors' living conditions: 'Are you
concerned about seniors' living conditions? I invite you to express your point of view'
(Marguerite Blais, Minister responsible for Seniors, Québec, Canada). "The public
consultation will focus, in particular, on: the financial situation of seniors;
recognition of the contribution and needs of informal caregivers; seniors' contribution to
society; home support; public and private seniors' homes. Visit the consultation's Website
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AGE DISCRIMINATION and AGEISM
- see
EQUALITIES
BBC
NEWS - see also
OPINION
and
PENSIONS
-
Courses click with silver
surfers
(Simon Atkinson,
Business Reporter, BBC News, 22 September 2008)
CABINET OFFICE: OFFICE OF THE THIRD
SECTOR
- see
THE THIRD SECTOR
CARE & CARING
-
End of life care
(Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit
Office, 26 November 2008)
Q&A: END OF LIFE CARE
(BBC News, 26 November 2008)
:"The National Audit Office (NAO)
said services were not meeting the needs of people....
"too many people are ending their days in hospital when they want to be
elsewhere - at home, in a care home or a hospice....
"The NAO pointed out that front-line staff lacked training, while funding
for services varied enormously.
"There is also a lack of co-ordination between council-run social
services and the NHS....
"Ministers published a strategy in the summer aimed at improving services.
"They promised nearly £300m of funding to help set up rapid response teams
in the community who will respond to emergencies from those in the
final stages of life.
The NAO is not entirely convinced this will work, pointing out there
is a lack of time-frames and commitment to support the NHS over
this....
the NAO report was just concerned with services in England...."
See also
Care "failing the terminally
ill" (Nick Triggle, BBC News, 26 November 2008)
-
End of life care
(Department of Health, November 2008)
-
Improving life care for adults - welcome to the national end of life
care programme
(NHS, 2008)
-
Care home concern (The Times, 12
November 2008)
"Elderly people in care homes will
be the first to suffer from new rules to restrict jobs for workers
from outside Europe, the head of the
English Community Care
Association has claimed. Martin Green said homes were likely to
close and fees would rise as a result of a new list of jobs
available to non-EU workers."
-
For all ages
- Government must invest now to fight age discrimination in Britain
(COUNSEL + CARE, 24 September 2008)
-
Click here to download the full press release
-
Health and Social Care Bill 2007-08
"Summary of the Bill
"The Bill seeks to enhance professional regulation and
create a new integrated regulator, the Care Quality Commission, for
health and adult social care, with focus on providing assurance about
the safety and quality of care for patients and service users.
"Key areas [excerpts]
Assures the safety and quality of care and creates a new regulator, the
Care Quality Commission
Equips the new regulator with tougher powers, backed by fines, to
inspect, investigate and intervene where hospitals are failing to meet hygiene
standards....
Creates an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and
objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies
Ensures that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with
doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases
of poor professional performance by doctors...". [excerpts and bold font in
www.olderpeoplesweb.org.uk]
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
(DCLG)
-
Giving [sic] older and young people a stronger voice (from Communites
in control: real people, real power, Department of Communities and Local Government,
White Paper, 9 July 2008)
from REPORT SUMMARY
35. It is important that older people can shape local services and in June 2008 the
Government launched
a review of older
peoples engagement with government.
from REPORT MAIN TEXT
Empowering older people
4.64 In an ageing society it is particularly important that older people are actively
involved in shaping local services. In June 2008 the Department of Work and Pensions
launched a
review of older peoples engagement with
Government.70 This
will examine the current arrangements for the engagement of older people and how these
arrangements inform policy and actions of government at all levels. The review will report
in the autumn. In addition, we will be refreshing our strategy for older people, Opportunity
Age, over the coming months.71
Communities and Local Governments recent 'Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods'
strategy highlighted how we would empower older people to live independently in their own
homes for longer, creating more choice and control for people over their lives.72
70 See
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmwms/archive/080522.htm#hddr_17
71 see
www.dwp.gov.uk/opportunity_age/
72 Communities and Local Government (2008) Lifetime
Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A National Strategy for housing in an ageing society.
London: Communities and Local Government
see DWP
PSA 17
- see
EQUALITIES
DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH (DoH) - see
HEALTH
and CARE & CARING
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Elderly put at risk by axing of 24-hour wardens (The
Observer, 9 August 2009)
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
(DWP) -
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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"
from Age Concern England and Help the Aged's response:
“Help the Aged and
Age Concern England strongly welcome the review....
“The voice of older
citizens should be heard clearly whenever and wherever decisions are
made which affect them: locally, regionally and nationally.
Services for older people are better when they are directly
influenced by the people who receive them. It is especially
important that the voices of all older people are heard – including
those who are often left out.
“We welcome the
Report’s recognition of the value of helping older people to be
active in their communities, because that is good for them and for
their families and communities....
“The original
[Better Government for Older People]
partners’ shared aim has been securing a better deal for older
people in the fields of health, income, social exclusion, housing
and other public services. The proposed new approach will
acknowledge and respect older people’s needs and preferences and
build on the opportunities for engagement as identified in the
Report.
“... both charities
particularly welcome the proposal that the current Department for
Work & Pensions engagement budget should be redeployed regionally
through the Government Offices....
-
review
of older people's engagement with government - statement in the House of
Commons:
Older People (Engagement with Government):
Mike O'Brien (Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions; North
Warwickshire, Labour) |
Hansard
source
I have asked John Elbourne,
former chief executive, Prudential Assurance
UK
Operations to examine the current arrangements for the engagement of older people and the
ability of those arrangements to inform policy and actions of Government at all levels.
Specifically, this will include examining Better Government for Older People's: aims,
structure and relationships; past achievements, lessons learned and best practice; lines
of accountability, governance and reporting; and management arrangements, legal status and
funding. He will explore options for improvement of engagement with older people in
respect of the new Government performance framework and in relation to the roles of other
organisations. He will then make recommendations to ensure that the findings of the review
take full account of the expectations of older people, best support the independence and wellbeing of people in later life and ensure an effective and efficient
process to serve these needs.
(TheyWorkForYou.com,
22 May 2008)
-
Public Service Agreement 17
Tackle poverty and promote greater independence and
wellbeing in later life:
Public Service Agreements (PSAs) set out
the key priority outcomes the Government wants to achieve in the next Comprehensive
Spending Review (CSR) period 20082011.
The Department for Work and Pensions
leads on PSA 17 with major contributions from the Department of Health and Department for
Communities and Local Government. It spans all policy and service areas and links closely
to other PSAs notably Health, Care, Employment and Equalities.
Local Authorities have a key role in
contributing to the success of PSA 17 through Local Area Agreements. Other local partners,
such as Primary Care Trusts and voluntary and community groups, also have a significant
contribution to make in partnership with Local Authorities.
PSA 17 brings together action across
Government to tackle pensioner poverty and to ensure that we adapt to an ageing society by
promoting greater independence and wellbeing in later life. The Public Service Agreement
(PSA) 17 has five key indicators to assess progress over the three year Comprehensive
Spending Review (CSR) period 20082011:
- the employment rate of those aged
5069 and the difference between this and the overall employment rate
- the percentage of pensioners in low income
- healthy life expectancy at 65
- satisfaction with home and neighbourhood
among the over-65s
- the extent to which older people receive
the support they need to live independently at home
The PSA also outlines further
reforms that the Government will take forward over the CSR period 20082011 to
promote improvements in independence and well-being in later life, laying the foundations
for adapting to an ageing society in the longer term. These include the pensions reforms
set out in the Pensions White Paper 'Security in
retirement: towards a new pension system'.
and see
WORK and
PENSIONS
ENGAGEMENT
AND EMPOWERMENT
-
Engagement and empowerment among older people in the South West of
England: a case study (Evaluation Trust and South West
Foundation,
received May 2008):
"about how Forums have developed in the South
West, what sort of work they are doing and what kind of support they get" (Diane
Aslett, Help the Aged)
EQUALITIES
-
Dame Joan
Bakewell named 'voice of older people'
(Government Equalities Unit
[now Office], November 2008)
-
Bakewell to champion the elderly
(BBC News, 9 November 2008)
-
Joan Bakewell to put a spring in the step of
the elderly
(Marie Woolf, The Sunday Times, 9 November
2008)
"The broadcaster has a history of
breaking prejudices. Now she is to be Britain's czar for the aged...
recruited to scrutinise policy and ensure that it does not
discriminate against the old. However, Bakewell has made it
clear that she will not be content simply to comment on policies
affecting her generation, but also wants to 'celebrate the
achievements of older people' and help the middle-aged to prepare
for decades of active living."
- See
Help the Aged's Fighting Ageism campaign.
-
Equality
Bill documents and debates (Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association)
HEALTH
- Pills & Perils, Repeat Prescribing for Older
Patients
(Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older People's Forum - Hampshire)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
-
The national
end of life care programme (Department of Health, 9 July 2008): "The
Programme builds on the work of the NHS End of Life Care Programme, which ran from
2004-07. This SHA-led programme was supported by £12m investment, and was established to
deliver on the commitment in Building on the Best to enable people at the end of life to
have more choice about where they can be cared for, and die. Further information on the
NHS End of Life Care Programme can be found at: End of Life Care Programme."
Supporting the
choice to die at home (Marie Curie Cancer Care campaign)
HELP
THE AGED
KT-EQUAL
- Putting ageing and disability research into practice
- funded by EPSRC.
See
http://tinyurl.com/dlqfy8.
KT_EQUAL will carry on from the work of
SPARC.
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