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Social isolation among older Londoners
- Author:
- CLIFTON Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 23p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
London faces a particular challenge in addressing social isolation among older people. The city has higher rates of population churn and pensioner poverty and less intergenerational contact than other areas of England. Its social care system is under pressure, with higher staff turnover and a greater reliance on migrant workers than other parts of the country. Given these challenges, how can public policy help to reduce social isolation among older people in London? This paper argues that while the state is good at tackling many problems, it is not currently equipped to tackle the issue of social isolation, which has its roots in wider changes to the way we live our lives. Based on primary research with older service users and service providers in London, it identifies four conditions that enable social ties to flourish and sets out what policymakers can do to promote them: support the development of places in which people can interact; design services around relationships, rather than fixed institutions and procedures; create a community information infrastructure, based on face-to-face contacts, peer support, web technology and a single point of access; and make sure that the first point of contact a person has with any service results in their wider needs being assessed and provided for.
New ideas about old age security: toward sustainable pension systems in the 21st century
- Authors:
- HOLZMANN Robert, STIGLITZ Joseph E
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 511p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Policy makers across the globe are struggling to adapt their pension systems to the reality of ageing populations, and tightening budgets. The World Bank is actively engaged in supporting these policy makers, from helping them to identify the economic and demographic challenges facing their countries to highlighting potential policy responses and providing implementation support. This book examines the implementation of the "multipillar" approach advocated by the Bank, focuses on the nature of a mandatory savings pillar and addresses such technical topics as coverage, distributive effects, administrative costs, and annuitisation.
Poverty
- Author:
- CRAIG Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 11, April 2001, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Poverty among older people in our society shows no signs of decreasing. Looks at two very different studies which give details about the reality of living in poverty for many older people in the UK.
The high cost of isolation
- Author:
- OWEN Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 5(1), January 2001, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A Mori survey for the Help the Aged has shown that nearly a million older people feel isolated and lonely. This article urges local and national government to take the problem only to avoid the high-cost consequences.
Assisted living: sobering realities
- Editor:
- SCHWARZ Benjamin
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 134p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Gerontologists, anthropologists, environmental designers, architects, social workers, and other professionals explore some of the issues facing those who will shape the future of assisted living.
The pension credit: the National Pensioners Convention's response to the government's consultation paper
- Author:
- LYNES Tony
- Publisher:
- National Pensioners Convention
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
From 2003 under the government's proposals, means tested income support for pensioners known as the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) will be renamed as the pension credit. As part of the new system the consultation paper proposed a savings credit changing the way in which entitlements are calculated.
Approaching retirement: social divisions, welfare and exclusion
- Author:
- MANN Kirk
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 280p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Tackles issues around income in retirement from a sociological perspective. Contains chapters on: social divisions, exclusion and retirement; two versions of political economy, ease and plenty or immerseration and crisis; consumption, consumers and choice; post work and post structuralism; risk and post traditional welfare; and comparative measures of 'successful retirement', including comparisons with other countries.
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.
Paying the price: carers, poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- HOWARD Marilyn
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 141p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are approximately six million people in the UK who provide care and support for someone, usually a relative or partner, who, because of age, health or disability, are unable to cope alone. Although this form of unpaid care work saves the taxpayer an estimated £34 billion a year in health and social services, the carers themselves are often left in poverty, excluded from any active social life and often without paid employment. This publication draws on recent research that looks at the way caring impacts on the lives of different types of carers. Each different group is examined a case study is presented to illustrate the different obstacles faced. The groups covered include: young carers; parent carers; working-age carers (and work), and; carers over pension age.
Glad to be grey?
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at what older people want from the next government. Liberal Democrat and Conservative spokespersons outline what they would do for older people if they win power.