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take care of your needs. You put yourself at the bottom of the pile.” “Feel invisible to the outside world and have to fight to get information.” “It’s just the feeling I have no control.” “I have willingly
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take care of your needs. You put yourself at the bottom of the pile.” “Feel invisible to the outside world and have to fight to get information.” “It’s just the feeling I have no control.” “I have willingly
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wake some people up to the fact that resources are scarce. Yet this is the perennial state of the world, of course. There are never enough resources to meet everyone’s needs or to satisfy everyone’s wants ... Overall the means-tested approach penalises those who have saved for old age. Across the developed world, other countries have made different choices about how to fund social care. These include: • social
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th 17 Castles (1998), The really big trade‐off: home ownership and the welfare state in the New world and the Old 11 Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review June 2014 This inverse relationship ... portfolios towards personal housing with the rate of owner occupation being one of the highest in the world. Some 85% of over 65s in Australia own their own houses, and the wealth represented by housing constitutes
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it in. When you’re told you’ve got something like this, you can feel you’re the only person in the world who has it. ‘I got into such a state that I went back to see my doctor and he told me about a local ... for walks in the countryside, and I know that when I get home from them, I’ll feel on top of the world. ‘I still have ‘down days’ but I know that talking about my dementia with people who know what it’s
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a social enterprise driven by the needs and aspirations of people in later life. Our vision is a world in which older people flourish. Our mission is to improve the lives of older people, wherever they
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marketplace, as highlighted by the lack of shopping around and limited innovation – the worst of both worlds. 9 Question 3: Do you consider we should introduce further consumer protections for consumers
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for co-ordinated support for older people We all like categories. They help us make sense of the world and feel more comfortable. And so we have ‘young people’; ‘middle aged people’ and ‘older people’
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resonates with people and gives them a reason to show up every day. We’re passionate about creating a world where people can thrive, regardless of their life stage, and our people are connected to that passion ... that digitally inexperienced applicants are not disadvantaged in today’s increasingly computerised world. We passionately believe that older workers do not belong on the ‘scrap heap’. We think more 25 must
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resonates with people and gives them a reason to show up every day. We’re passionate about creating a world where people can thrive, regardless of their life stage, and our people are connected to that passion ... that digitally inexperienced applicants are not disadvantaged in today’s increasingly computerised world. We passionately believe that older workers do not belong on the ‘scrap heap’. We think more 25 must
