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Entries by Kate A. Hamblin
(9 entries)
Social Care and the Spring Budget
The announcement that the Spring budget will provide social care with an additional £2bn for the next three years, with £1bn available in 2017-8 has been met with an understandably mixe...
Home Sweet Home 2: Housing supply and policy reform
In July, I wrote a blog exploring the future of housing for older people. Housing demand outstrips supply in all sectors, but a lack of appropriate housing for older people has a knock-on effect fo...
Finland and early exit: sustainability, adequacy and fairness
It has been reported that Finland plans to introduce a policy that would allow long-term unemployed people over the age of 60 the option to retire early at an estimated cost to the Finnish Governme...
Home sweet home? The gap between housing supply and demand for an ageing population
Recent research by the International Longevity Centre (ILC), Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project and the 2016 Homeowners Surv...
Population Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities for the Museum and Gallery Sector
Previous blogs have addressed the benefits of engaging with art and culture in later life, which include the promotion of social engagement, health and wellbeing and reducing isolation. Older peopl...
Keeping in touch with technology? Using telecare and assistive technology to support older people with dual sensory impairment
All too often, a deterioration in sight and hearing is seen as bound up with the process of getting older, and as a result is under-reported in self-assessed measures of disability. When hearing an...
Ageing, loneliness and homogeneity: let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
With the sound of bonfire night fireworks still ringing in our ears, and the last of the Halloween sweets just about polished off, it must be time for the retail sector to start the run up to Chris...
Helping a workforce age, not helping an ageing workforce: the importance of Work Ability for ageing
It was recently reported that increasing the employment rate for 55-59 year olds will boost the UK economy by £100bn per annum. PwC’s ‘Golden Age’ index, which examines how ...
Reflections on the market and care- what the future may hold
The Green Templeton College ‘Conversation on Care and the Market’ seminar (3rd June 2015) provided plenty of food for thought on the topic of residential care provision (with some musin...