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Never too late for living
— inquiry into services for older people | | Author(s) | Clive Betts , Janet Sillett, Amelie Cookson |
| Corporate Author | All Party Parliamentary Local Government Group; Centre for Service Transformation, Local Government Information Unit - LGIU; Chief Executive's Office, Essex County Council |
| Publisher | Local Government Information Unit, London, July 2008 |
| Pages | 44 pp |
| Source | Only available as a pdf to download free of charge, at: http://www.lgiu.gov.uk/publication-detail.jsp?&id=... |
| Keywords | Services ; Local Authority ; Consumer choice ; Social policy ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | For too long, adult social care and services for older people have been the poor relations of health and children's services. The All Party Parliamentary Local Government Group (APPG), a genuinely cross-party group, emphasises that public perceptions about ageing need to change. The report discusses and gives examples illustrating current issues: the future of care funding; individual budgets; service integration; personalisation; the value of formal and informal care; volunteering; housing; innovations in care; and the role of district councils. The key recommendations include: a national agreement of the outcomes that define quality of life in later years; a simple way to know how these outcomes will be delivered sustainably; transparency about what public money is being spent locally; a way of moving money from treating illness to preventing it; broadening the debate about health and social care to address quality of life more widely; a national gateway to support better housing choices; and a simpler way for people to volunteer throughout their lives. There was a broad consensus on the principles for a future system, based on sustainability, transparency, fairness, flexibility and accessibility. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080728003 E |
| Classmark | I: PE: WYC: TM2: 583 |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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