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Fair ageing
— the challenge of our lifetime | | Corporate Author | Housing 21; Counsel and Care |
| Publisher | Electronic format, 2009 |
| Pages | 28 pp |
| Source | Download from website (13/10/09): http://www.housing21.co.uk/corporate-information/m... |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Services ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This report was drafted by Donald Hirsch, and follows a programme of three round table seminars and a conference on the theme 'Fairness in an Ageing Society' organised by the Fabian Society. The focus is on ways in which Britain can become a fairer place in which to age: society needs to change its attitudes; enabling participation; adapting infrastructure; allocating resources to helping people at different times in their lives; and deploying resources wisely to enhance opportunities and improve quality of life. Among the twelve steps that could be taken are: a clear-cut settlement for long-term care; scrapping compulsory retirement ages; a specific duty on local government to engage with older people in making decisions about policies that affect them; an 'ageing matters initiative (c.f. 'Every child matters'); a 'prevention' agenda; more positive portrayals of age by the media; focus toward 'lifetime' homes and communities; review of universal and targeted entitlements in later life; and explicit measures to address the needs of over 80s (the "forgotten generation"). Five eminent commentators offer their view on: enabling participation; a sense of fairness; fair ageing and the media; adapting infrastructure and fairness in care; changing attitudes for the better; and bringing the generations together. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091013201 E |
| Classmark | BG: TOB: I: TM2 |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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