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From welfare to well-being - planning for an ageing society
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Britain has not yet got to grips with the implications of living in an ageing society where, for the first time, older people will outnumber young people. In other countries in Europe, older people are valued and celebrated as an asset to society. In the UK, age discrimination is still built into the fabric of society, and the ageing of the population is often portrayed in negative terms in the media and at a policy level. Britain is still locked into a traditional welfare-rationing approach for people on low incomes, rather than a broader approach that applies to older people across all economic groups as citizens and consumers, and which draws in the private sector as partners. Public services still focus, by and large, on the most vulnerable older people at times of crisis (some fifteen per cent of the older population) rather than adopting an approach which enables the wider older population (the other eighty-five per cent) to remain independent for as long as possible and live their lives to the full. Many older people are still excluded from universal services. Except in Wales, there is no overall government vision and strategy to plan for an ageing society.
Pakistan's zakat system: a policy model for developing countries as a means of redistributing income to the elderly
- Author:
- CLARK Grace
- Journal article citation:
- Social Thought: Journal of Religion in the Social Services, 20(3/4), 2001, pp.47-75.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Pakistan's national zakat system is a simple welfare system based on traditional Islamic law. It provides minimal benefits to the very poorest of Pakistan's poor, especially the elderly. Although the system was launched with the highest religious ideals, utilising creative approaches to collecting and disbursing zakat, over time this system has experienced deficiencies due to corruption, favouritism, and government greed. Whiles zakat has not met the original goals of eliminating poverty or eliminating beggary, and while it has met the goals of providing rehabilitation and redistributing income in only the most modest sense, Pakistan has still demonstrated the potential for a zakat system to provide some cash income to the very poorest old in a very poor country who would otherwise have no cash income at all.
The social security protection of older women: the hidden issue of the end of the century
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 24(4), Spring 1998, pp.49-61.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The purpose of this article is to briefly cast an eye backward to see how countries worldwide have reached their current situation with regard to social security, and to identify certain obstacles that stand in the way of future reforms aimed at meeting the particular social protection needs for women, particularly in the area of old-age income security.
A decent proposal
- Author:
- FIELD Frank
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.97, 1997, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the pros and cons of the Social Security Secretary's proposals for state pensions and argues they have an important contribution to make to the debate about the future funding of welfare.
Can pension systems cope?: population ageing and retirement income provision in the European Union
- Author:
- DAVIS E. Phillip
- Publisher:
- Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 76p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the effects of ageing in the EU on economic performance in general and on pension systems in particular.
Health and welfare for the elderly: an outline of systems and trends
- Author:
- MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE OF JAPAN. Bureau of Health and Social Welfare Services for the Aged
- Publisher:
- Foundation of Social Development for Senior Citizens
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 166p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Tokyo
Looks at the present situation of the population of older people in Japan. Outlines a 10 year strategy to promote health and social services for a growing older population. Outlines health and social service provision and goes on to look at housing and taxation.
Age and race: double discrimination; life in Britain today for ethnic minority elders
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN. Commission for Racial Equality
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- Five booklets + two flyers.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes: an overview of life for ethnic minority elders in Britain today; health; housing; income; social welfare; education and leisure. Flyers on useful organisations, contacts and further reading.
Promoting social welfare: first annual report of the Chief Inspector Social Services Inspectorate Northern Ireland 1994
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health and Social Services. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services. Social Services Insp
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 132p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Annual report organised under the following headings: planning and delivery; social and economic conditions; older people; disabled people; people with learning difficulties; people with mental health problems; and children and families.