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Information and advice for older people: evidence review
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
At times of major policy and legal changes, the need for high-quality, up-to-date and impartial information and advice is especially important. This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising and influencing. It summarises some key policy developments that will affect many older people, and discusses the role and value of organisations specialising in information and advice provision. It provides examples of information and advice services for older people in other countries, and by Age UK's national and local groups on care, housing, benefits and money, and for black and minority ethnic people. (Original abstract)
Financial resilience in later life
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- London
This report brings together all of the findings of the Age UK Financial Services Commission, which examined how the financial resilience of older people can be improved, and sets them in the context of the government’s proposed pension reforms. Financial resilience is defined as a mixture of not just financial but also health, social and personal resources that enable older people to thrive over the entire course of their later life and the ability to adapt plans or change arrangements, in response to both changing personal circumstances and wider economic conditions. The first half of this report summarises the emerging themes of the Commission, including decision making and staying in control in older age, and the second half sets out Age UK’s recommendations in relation to the access to good quality information, advice and guidance throughout later life, the offer of financial products and building trust. (Edited publisher abstract)