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Autumn Statement 2016: Age UK representation
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out what Age UK would like to see in the Autumn Statement 2016, focusing on the role of public infrastructure in supporting independence; the role of the private sector; health and care; housing; energy efficiency; adequate incomes for current and future pensioners; the digital economy; integrated transport services; and cross-disciplinary research into ageing. The paper argues that the Government must prioritise a proper, coordinated approach to health and care policy, including recognition of the contribution of people who are paying for their own care, building in flexibility across the system so that savings in one sector (NHS) can be shared across the other (social care). It suggests that the need for an immediate, and significant injection of funding into social care is now inescapable and argues that it may also be possible to use infrastructure spending to relieve the pressure on health and care services, for example by looking afresh at new models of housing, integrated transport services and better use of the existing NHS estate. In addition, the paper contends that Local Government must be supported to provide the local infrastructure network that will enable an ageing population to remain independent. (Edited publisher abstract)