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Opportunity age: meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper is about shedding the stereotypes that surround our older people and instead ensuring that government can help people to live the lives that they want and deserve. This is not just about traditional issues such as pensions or care homes. It is about allowing people to work longer if they want to and ending the nonsense of good, able workers being thrown on the scrapheap just because of their age. To ensure people have access to education courses or sports clubs and giving people the independence and choice they want in choosing the services that they need.
Opportunity age: volume 2: a social portrait of ageing in the UK
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper is about shedding the stereotypes that surround our older people and instead ensuring that government can help people to live the lives that they want and deserve. This is not just about traditional issues such as pensions or care homes. It is about allowing people to work longer if they want to and ending the nonsense of good, able workers being thrown on the scrapheap just because of their age. To ensure people have access to education courses or sports clubs and giving people the independence and choice they want in choosing the services that they need.
Opportunity for all: making progress; third annual report 2001; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by Command of Her Majesty September 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 272p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Report setting out progress made in tackling child poverty, increasing opportunities for people of working age, as well as ensuring that pensioners share in rising prosperity. Sets out measures specifically designed to help communities that have suffered from disadvantage and deprivation for years.