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By Geraldine Bedell on 25 November, 2010
‘The most serious social policy issue in decades,’ is how the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) describes the ageing population and, in particular, its need for social care. Yet there’s quite astonishing apathy when it comes to planning for what’s about to hit us – the 1.7 million more people who will need social care over [...]
Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care | Tagged Centre for Social Justice, Iain Duncan Smith, Interim Review of Older Age, ippr, social care |
By Geraldine Bedell on 13 August, 2010
The funding of care in England and Wales is a Byzantine structure of mysterious entitlements and clawbacks. The new government has wasted little time (rather like its predecessor in 1997) in announcing an investigation into this morass – and, with its Commission on the Funding of Care and Support due to report next summer, it’s [...]
Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care, Politics | Tagged Careless, carers, Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, Department of Health, Henry Featherstone, Lilly Whitham, National Health Service, Office of National Statistics, Policy Exchange, social care |
By Geraldine Bedell on 29 June, 2010
‘I haven’t had such a good time in my life…ever, I think.’ Linda Merron, who was 60 in March, suffers from ME, heart disease and Crohn’s fibromyalgia. When her 24 year-old daughter Rosie moved away last year, taking her social life (which was also Linda’s social life) with her, she started to worry about loneliness [...]
Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care | Tagged Carmen Hortal, Daniel Dickens, David Cameron, Department of Work and Pensions, Hammersmith and Fulham, handyperson, Linda Merron, Marc Freedman, National Film Theatre, Participle, pensioners, public services, Sky, social care, social network, Southwark Circle, Southwark Council, Suffolk, Third Age |
By Geraldine Bedell on 15 June, 2010
Wading through the new Office for Budget Responsibility’s analysis of the state of the British economy, it’s obvious that the ageing population will be a significant factor when it comes to restoring growth (or not). The pre-budget forecast highlights real dangers of a slowdown caused by fewer people working and higher demands on pensions and [...]
Posted in Blog, Commentary, Culture, News, Politics, Work | Tagged ageing population, Austria, Belgium, benefits, Conservatives, Czech Republic, Daily Mail, Eastern Europe, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Estonia, EU, Germany, gerontology, Gillian Duffy, Gordon Brown, healthcare, Hungary, immigration, jobs, Labour, Latvia, Lithuania, Observer, Office for Budget Responsibility, older people, Oxford, pensions, Poland, Sarah Harper, Slovakia, Slovenia, social care, UK economy |
Immigration – the politicians’ dirty little secret
By Geraldine Bedell on 15 June, 2010
Wading through the new Office for Budget Responsibility’s analysis of the state of the British economy, it’s obvious that the ageing population will be a significant factor when it comes to restoring growth (or not). The pre-budget forecast highlights real dangers of a slowdown caused by fewer people working and higher demands on pensions and [...]
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