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Call for proactive social care to support pensioners
27/06/2025 Researchers have recommended proactive social care to support pensioners’ ‘right[s] to live and age well’. |
Places must adapt for ageing population, says Whitty
13/11/2023 Places and infrastructure must be adapted to support an ageing population, particularly in rural areas, according to England's chief medical officer. |
Government should ‘prioritise’ accessible house building, charity says
25/07/2019 Better advice and support is needed to help people move into a more suitable home in later life, according to housing experts. |
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Council chiefs call for devolution to rural communities after Brexit
04/07/2019 Local authority leaders have called on the Government to devolve more powers to rural areas in the event that Britain leaves the European Union. |
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Thousands of older people impacted by care home closures, survey reveals
27/06/2019 Survey of social care directors has revealed that thousands of older and disabled people have been impacted by care home closures after a decade of cuts. |
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Over 14 million people live with more than one long-term condition, study shows
22/05/2019 Almost one in four people are living with long-term multiple health conditions, according to new research. |
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Peers call for a rebalancing of policies ‘in favour of the young’
25/04/2019 House of Lords committee has recommended ending free TV licences for over-75s, lowering the age for free bus passes and scrapping the triple-lock on pensions. |
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Whitehall launches social care recruitment drive
12/02/2019 The Government has launched a new national recruitment campaign to help fill the 110,000 vacancies in the adult social care sector. |
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500 shared sites needed to end ‘age apartheid’, think tank says
05/01/2018 A think tank has called for the creation of hundreds of shared sites designed to bring young and old people together and end Britain’s ‘age apartheid’. |
