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Ready for ageing?
— report of session 2012-13 | | Corporate Author | Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change, House of Lords |
| Publisher | TSO, London, 14 March 2013 |
| Pages | 93 pp (HL 2012/3 140) |
| Source | Download: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/... |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Services ; Social policy ; Demography ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change (chairman Lord Filkin) was appointed on 29 May 2012, to consider public service provision in the light of demographic change. In this report, the Committee warns that the Government and our society are woefully underprepared for ageing. While longer lives can be a great benefit, there has been a collective failure to address the implications; and without urgent action this great boon could turn into a series of miserable crises. The report identifies how England will see a 51% rise in those aged 65+ and a 101% increase in those aged 85+ from 2010 to 2030. The report considers later working, reforming pensions and savings, and using the value in our homes as ways of supporting ourselves through later life. It also outlines issues relating to living independently and well: the increasing pressures on health and social care; care at home (wherever possible); personalised care; and housing and wider public services. Most of the report comprises annexes on matters raised in the report, including demographic change, attitudes to ageing, economic and fiscal aspects of the ageing population, fairness within and between the generations, informal care, and service design and delivery. There is more information in the oral and written evidence to the Committee from organisations and eminent gerontologists (1022 pp; see: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committee... (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130320002 E |
| Classmark | BG: I: TM2: S8: 6OA |
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