Category Archives: ELDERLY UK POLICY

£168.50 per week !

Posted on March 8, 2020 by

That is the National State Pension in the UK.    Or put another way it is about £8,000 a year.   Obviously that must be successive Government’s view of how much you need to live on.      Surely everyone wants … Continue reading →

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Social Care Wrong-Footed.

Posted on January 15, 2020 by

Prime Minister Bodj has pledged to sort out social care funding in his first 100 days in office   The trouble is that he has started out on the wrong foot by promising that ”older people can keep their own … Continue reading →

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Television Benefits 😀

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

This is a great storey of how good can come out of a bad idea.    It is also a storey of cowardly policy, disregard of older people’s views, unintended consequences and happily a potentially a very good end result … Continue reading →

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Deaf Ears

Posted on July 18, 2019 by

A report published by Exeter University and Kings College London attracted a front page headline in The Times this week. It was about a study of over 25,000 older people and it concluded that those who wore hearing aids performed … Continue reading →

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Dignity be damned again !

Posted on November 18, 2018 by

Care homes are again in the headlines.     The Daily Mail has once again raised its campaigning banner “Dignity for the Elderly”.  It’s been a very long and wholly ineffective effort.   It started way back in 2010, when … Continue reading →

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TV No Longer Free ? Part Two

Posted on October 21, 2018 by

This follows on from my last post about the BBC reviewing the free TV licenses currently given to all over 75’s. The Beeb is launching a consultation, which means they would like to scrap free licences, but they don’t know … Continue reading →

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TV No Longer Free ?

Posted on October 14, 2018 by

A few years ago the Government quietly passed responsibility for “free TV licenses for over 75’s” over to the BBC.    It was announced in the Chancellor’s budget statement, but attracted little comment.  The Government used to foot the bill … Continue reading →

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