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A vision for older Londoners: the third London Older People's Assembly: Tuesday 22 March 2005 at City Hall
- Author:
- LONDON OLDER PEOPLE'S STRATEGY GROUP
- Publisher:
- Greater London Authority
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides an account of the proceedings of A Vision for Older Londoners, the third London Older People’s Assembly held on Tuesday 22nd March 2005 at City Hall. The Assembly which is organised by the London Older People’s Strategies Group (LOPSG) with the support of the Mayor of London is the main annual event where older Londoners can debate the key issues of concern to them and to express their views on how they find living in the capital. The focus of this year’s Assembly was the Mayor’s London Older People’s Strategy, which is currently being developed. The Assembly offered older people the opportunity to address what issues they thought the strategy should highlight ahead of the official consultation process that is due to take place over the summer of 2005.
Towards an older people's strategy for London: a draft mayoral strategy for consultation
- Author:
- GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Greater London Authority
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 74p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mayor has prioritised four key areas for action. He will: challenge negative perceptions of older people and fully recognise the contribution they make to London; take action to reduce pensioner poverty in London; promote high quality social care; and support those valuable discretionary services which can make so much difference to older people’s lives.
Friends for life
- Author:
- CARLISLE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.9.96, 1996, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at the controversies emerging following a recent ruling on a case where a care worker was left five thousand pounds in a former client's will.
Ageing, fast and slow: when place and demography collide
- Author:
- McCURDY Charlie
- Publisher:
- Resolution Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides an analysis of differences in ageing across regions and local authorities in the UK in order to understand the drivers of those differences and the implications for policy. The report shows that gaps in average ages vary substantially across the UK. The age differences between local areas have also grown. In 2001, 15 local authorities in the UK had an average age 10 per cent higher than the national average, and 17 had an average age 10 per cent lower than the national average. Recent figures for 2018, show that these have increased to 33 and 39 local authorities, respectively. This divergence has been driven primarily by differences in birth and migration rates. The report highlights the implications of demographic divergence for local authorities in relation to local services, economies, and politics. These include growing differences in demand for social care services, with this demand mapping increasingly poorly onto councils’ existing revenue-raising potential. (Edited publisher abstract)
Local government, ageing and social inclusion: past, present and future
- Author:
- MCGARRY Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 23(1), 2015, pp.71-79.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Local government plays a critical role in promoting good quality of life for older people in the UK. The capacity of local government agencies to lead wide-ranging programmes aimed at reducing social exclusion has been demonstrated through a range of initiatives, evident principally under the New Labour governments. However, despite increasing numbers of older people, and a greater profile given to ageing across policy and public discourse, since 2010 there has been a gap in national strategy policy making. This paper calls for a new coordinated response to the ageing agenda, based on utilising the World Health Organization's age-friendly cities and communities approach. (Publisher abstract)
Painting the Forth Bridge
- Author:
- BADGER Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.96, 1996, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how Cambridgeshire arrived at joint policies and procedures for dealing with elder abuse.
Which older people? What sort of welfare state? Whose service?
- Author:
- SHREEVE Martin W.
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Policy Making, 15(3), December 1988, pp.15-21.
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
Outlines issues of targeting versus universalism and consumer needs in the provision of services.
Councils for care: planning a local government strategy for older people
- Authors:
- NORTON Alan, STOTEN Bryan, TAYLOR Hedley
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 193p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The politics of old age in Europe
- Editors:
- WALKER Alan, NAEGELE Gerhard
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Collection of essays examining the new politics of old age from the perspective of individual countries and the European Union as a whole. Contains case studies from: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Hungary and the USA. Each country study provides an overview of the politics of old age, including main developments, organisations, and actors. Goes on to give an account of recent national or local government developments to increase the participation of older people, analyses the barriers to participation and takes a forward look at the likely direction of policies.
The role of local initiatives in tackling the exclusion of older workers from the labour market in Britain
- Authors:
- COLLIS Clive, MALLIER Tony, SMITH-CANHAM James
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 25(3), Winter 1999, pp.47-61.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The exclusion of older workers from the labour market is a widespread phenomenon in Britain, but that the problem has proved to be worse in traditionally depressed regions, where fewer job opportunities are available. A number of local initiatives have been developed to help older workers re-enter the labour market, but initiatives and good practice are often isolated from each other. In this article, authors examine examples of good practice and the barriers which have constrained their continuation; in addition, some initiatives which are not good examples are discussed.