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  1. Making it work for us: a residents’ inquiry into sheltered and retirement housing - Oct 12 (PDF)

    sheltered and retirement housing 1 Acknowledgements 3 Executive summary 4 Key recommendations 5 Introduction 7 What is this inquiry? 7 Definitions 8 Background to the inquiry 8 Why does retirement housing matter ... matter? 9 How did the inquiry work? 9 Recent reports and guidance on retirement housing 10 About this report 11 Legal advice and advocacy 13 Complaints 13 Access to advice 16 The ‘Right to Manage’ 18

  2. Age UK Parliamentary Briefing - Cost of Living, October 2023.pdf

    Briefing Cost of living October 2023 Overview After two years of weathering sky-high price rises on everything from food to fuel, it’s clear that for millions of older people, the cost of living crisis is ... equivalent to 4.2 million older people have recently cut back on food or groceries due to the cost of living crisis. Worryingly our research shows that the median pensioner household is spending around £50

  3. Consultation response to modernising support for independent living, DWP, June 2024.pdf

    Consultation response Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper Department for Work and Pensions June 2024 Contact: policy@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved ... consultation paper refers to 2.6 million people of working age being in receipt of PIP and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and states that it ‘will focus on the main non-means tested benefit paid to adults

  4. Consultation Response House of Lords Select Comittee, digital exclusion and cost of living, March 2023.pdf

    evidence to the Communications and Digital Committee’s inquiry into digital exclusion and the cost of living March 2023 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it ... Lords Communications and Digital Committee launched an inquiry to look at how the rising cost of living will affect digital exclusion and to identify solutions around how the issue can be tackled. Key

  5. Policy Briefing - Living in a digital world after Covid-19 the experience of older people who don’t live their lives online.pdf

    1 Briefing Paper Living in a digital world after Covid-19 – the experiences of older people who don’t live their lives online December 2021 Introduction Many people cannot imagine life without ... they were brought up on it. A lot of us didn’t even have a telephone when we were young’. ‘We are a retired generation, have more time. You manage to sort yourself out. A busy mother who has children and is

  6. Financial resilience during retirement – stage one: literature review and expert (PDF 853)

    resilience during retirement – Stage 1 research Report based on a rapid evidence review and expert interviews Prepared for: November 2017 Financial resilience during retirement – Stage 1 research ... wellbeing of OPIR? .................. 9 3.2 What life events will OPIR need to plan for and manage in retirement? ............................. 13 3.3 What constitutes good outcomes for OPIR? ...............

  7. Building an income for retirement: approaches to encourage more pension saving - Sept 14 (PDF)

    Building an income for retirement: approaches to encourage more pension saving A discussion paper by Age UK Using the National Institute of Economic and Social Research’s LINDA model 2 Building ... Building an income for retirement – approaches to encourage more pension saving A discussion paper by Age UK Using the National Institute of Economic and Social Research’s LINDA model September 2014

  8. Affordability of retirement housing in the UK - Sept 12 (PDF)

    AFFORDABILITY OF RETIREMENT HOUSING IN THE UK SEPTEMBER 2012 HANNAH ALDRIDGE, PETER KENWAY AND JENNY PANNELL Affordability of retirement housing in the UK 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Summary 3 Research ... ........................ 3 Retirement housing ........................................................................................ 3 State help with costs in retirement housing for pensioners ....

  9. Work and Pensions Committee The Cost of living.pdf

    Age UK’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry: The Cost of Living June 2022 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational ... About this consultation The Work and Pensions Committee is carrying out an inquiry on the cost of living and is seeking evidence on how the Government can support people on Universal Credit, legacy benefits

  10. Cost of living parliamentary briefing - May 2022.pdf

    Cost of living parliamentary briefing May 2022 Background At Age UK, we are concerned about how the rising cost of living is affecting older people on low and modest incomes. Prices of everyday items ... not protected by Ofgem's price cap (e.g. oil, smokeless fuel and bottled gas). The rising cost of living Higher prices have resulted in older households on the lowest incomes often being unable to cover

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