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  1. Energy Crisis Parliamentary Briefing - November 2021.pdf

    supporting older people this winter November 2021 Background In England, nearly 1 million older households are living in fuel poverty. With energy prices increasing, an estimated 150,000 will join them ... groups – they feel the cold more, often have health conditions made worse by the cold and many live in homes that are hard to heat. We are urging the Government to provide a £50 one-off payment to those

  2. Age UK Parliamentary Briefing- Winter Fuel Payment (December 2024).pdf

    decision means 2.5m pensioners living in poverty or just above the poverty line1 are losing their WFP. In fact, 82% of all pensioners living in poverty or just above the poverty line are losing the payment due ... to the WFP. Sadly, many of the concerns Age UK raised when the decision was made have been borne out in the latest data. For more information, please refer to our previous briefing: Winter Fuel Payment

  3. 2025 State of Health & Care of Older People in England.pdf

    1 T he State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2025 Authors: Chloe Reeves, Dr Aisha Islam, Tom Gentry September 2025 2 Contents Foreword ............................ ... ................................................... 18 1.5 Factors impacting health and care needs in later life ......................................................... 19 2 NEIGHBOURHOOD TREATMENT,

  4. Time to bring our care workers in from the cold 2nd November 2020.pdf

    1 Time to bring our care workers in from the cold Behind the Headlines: Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered ... blind eye to chronic underfunding and market instability, among a host of other problems, care in England was in no position to withstand the impact of this terrible pandemic. The difficulties facing the care

  5. RB_Feb17_The_Health_and_Care_of_Older_People_in_England_2017.pdf

    1 Briefing: Health and Care of Older People in England 2017 February 2017 2 Contents Foreword ............................................................................................... ... .................................................................................... 18 2.1 Trends in publicly funded social care services .......................................................... 18

  6. Time to bring our care workers in from the cold 2nd November 2020.pdf

    1 Time to bring our care workers in from the cold Behind the Headlines: Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered ... blind eye to chronic underfunding and market instability, among a host of other problems, care in England was in no position to withstand the impact of this terrible pandemic. The difficulties facing the care

  7. RB_May16_CPA_rapid_review_Diversity_in_older_age_Older_Offenders.pdf

    Ageing – Rapid review 2016 1 Diversity in older age – Older Offenders Demographic overview In June 2016 there were 12,700 older people (aged 50 and over) in prison in England and Wales of whom around two ... two thirds (65%) were aged 50-59, one quarter (24%) aged 60-69 and just over one in ten (11%) aged 70 and over.1 Older prisoners made up 15% of the total prison population of England and Wales.1 The over

  8. RB_May16_CPA_rapid_review_Diversity_in_older_age_Religious_Minorities.pdf

    Ageing – Rapid review 2016 1 Diversity in older age – Minority Religions Demographics In recent years the United Kingdom has seen major, and contradictory, changes in attitudes to religion. Some minority ... been in decline2. There are four different ways of measuring religiosity: based on loose cultural affiliation; based on ‘belonging’ to a religion, or identifying as religious; based on believing in the

  9. RB_May16_CPA_rapid_review_Diversity_in_older_age_Refugees_and_asylum_seekers.pdf

    Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review 2016 1 Diversity in older age – Older refugees and asylum seekers Refugees and Asylum seekers A refugee is a person who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being ... relating to the Status of Refugees] 1 In the UK, only a small proportion (4%)2 of migrants are refugees and, internationally, not all refugees formally seek asylum but, in the UK, refugee status is only awarded

  10. RB_May16_CPA_rapid_review_Diversity_in_older_age_Older_homeless_people.pdf

    Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review 2017 1 Diversity in older age – Older homelessness The characteristics of older homelessness can change rapidly over time and may differ significantly from place ... review will focus on older homelessness in England. In England older homelessness is currently on the increase and the number of older street-homeless has doubled in the five years from 2010 to 2015. Homelessness

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