Quality in ageing and older adults : promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice : older people as voters, citizens and changemakers / guest editor, Stephen Burke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 16, Issue 1

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 1471-7794 ; Volume 16, Number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Care.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This e-book of Quality in Ageing and Older Adults takes the opportunity to consider the impact of the coalition government since 2010 on and for older people. It looks forward to the next government, whatever shape it takes, and what that government needs to do to improve life for older people and prepare for an ageing population in the UK.

Contents:

Cover; Guest editorial; The coalition government and ageing policy: a critique; Standing up for today's and tomorrow's pensioners; Never had it so good? Boom time forolder people; Work, pensions and poverty: a better dealunder the next government; Health and social care for older people:progress, problems and priorities; Housing: the unacknowledged key to our ageing challenge?; What are the issues affecting grandparents in Britain today?; A world of social interaction for all; An age of opportunity for the voluntary sector

Addressing isolation: the importance of integration and the role of institutionsGrey Pride: priorities for a minister for older people; How older people will vote in the 2015 general election: a review of existing polling evidence; The road to 2020

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed April 20, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78560-279-9

OCLC:

909899767