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A unique way to pay for residential care… without selling your home

Every year, thousands of elderly people and their families face the conundrum of how to pay for care home fees – which can typically be between £40,000 and £50,000 a year. We talk to Jeremy Nixey of Alliance member Shaw Lifetime Care, part of the charitable Shaw Foundation, about the unique option they offer.

July 13, 2023
Health and social care integration: the myths and the realities from a social worker’s perspective

“It cries out to be released from present day 19th-century asylum-based narratives of social care reform.” Mervyn Eastman has spent over 45 years in and around social care and social work. What does HE see as the way forward for this vital service?

July 11, 2023
No country for older people…?

Am I imagining it, asks Tony Watts OBE, or are older people routinely and systematically being excluded and discriminated against?

July 6, 2023
Guide sets out the business case for employing older workers

As part of an Employers Guide to “Best Practice in Age and Employment”, from the London-based later life employment consultancy Wise Age, the authors set out the benefits of harnessing the talents of older people within their workforce.

June 23, 2023
ADASS Survey Reaction: Prevention and a skilled workforce are key to the future of social care

Sam Monaghan, the CEO of MHA, sets out the key ways in which we can address the crisis in the social care system… including recognising, rewarding and retaining the people already working in it.

June 23, 2023
Independent Age launches campaigning toolkit

They explain how to campaign, include guides about how councils and other bodies make decisions in England and Scotland – and can be used to build a campaign about any issue.

May 31, 2023
Celebrating the reciprocal benefits of homesharing

Caroline Cooke, director at CIC Share and Care Homeshare, describes the valuable contributions that both younger and older people bring to intergenerational living arrangements… and the reciprocal benefits.

May 23, 2023
“Nothing about us without us.” Yeah, right.

The “taskforce to transform older people’s housing” has been announced… with not one older person on it. If this isn’t ageist, what is? asks Tony Watts OBE.

May 16, 2023
So how many older people DID lose their vote at the local elections… and will the law now change back?

Now we know that the introduction of Voter ID was, in a former cabinet minister’s own words, “gerrymandering”, and that it stopped many older people from voting, is it not time to change the rules back to where they were, asks Tony Watts OBE.

May 16, 2023
Sounds brilliant: tuning in to age friendly radio

If you’re not already an avid listener, you might want to tune into the great output of The Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC): an award-winning and growing network of older radio show hosts, age-friendly radio stations, voluntary and community sector organisations and academic researchers working on age-related issues.

May 16, 2023

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