Ready for Ageing?
Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 0108550494 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780108550492 |
Rating | : 4/5 (492 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ready for Ageing? written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report Ready For Ageing? (HL 140) investigates the outcomes of a 50% rise in the number of people aged over 65, and a 100% increase in those aged over 85, expected to occur in England between 2010 and 2030. An ageing society will greatly increase the number of people with long-term health conditions, and health and social care services will need a radically different model of care to support them. The Committee recommends that the Government publish a White Paper before the next general election setting out how our society needs to prepare for a longer life, and establish two cross-party commissions to respond to the ageing society. One would work with employers and financial services providers to improve pensions, savings and equity release; the other would analyse how the health and social care system and its funding should change to serve the needs of our ageing population. To help address a worsening of the problem of insufficient savings and pensi