Archived news articles
Please click on the relevant link below to read archived news articles on issues affecting older people.
Women’s Pensions
- The Guardian view on women’s pensions changes
- Retirement rate rise: Millions of women born in 1950s say they weren’t given enough notice
- Pension campaigners told there is no ‘magic pot’ of cash to help women
- Pensions: government denies women kept in dark
- 500000 women deserve a better state pension deal
- Pension age changes to save £12billion as women are hit hardest
- Millions of women will lose £38,000 from pensions under plans to raise retirement age to 66
Pensions in the News
- New state pension to be investigated by MPs over confusion concerns
- Overseas pensioner have been handed a raw deal
- Half of new pensioners who retire are too broke to stop working
- 2million pensioners live in poverty, says ONS
- State pension freeze saves up to £350m
- Crackdown on political jargon urged by MPs
- Record number of older workers forced to shelve retirement plans due to financial crisis
- Pensioners to lose payment choice
- State pension faces population explosion
- Bosses call for later pension age
- Millions of pensioners pay too much tax due to over-complicated system
- Government urged to act on pensioner tax overpayments
- Pension choice ‘poorly explained’
- State pensions to rise by 2.5%
- Pensioners to be £8 a week richer
- Warning as pensions gap rises to £15bn
- Pensioners to miss out on half a billion in allowances
Health and Social Care
- UK should have “properly resourced” social care plan in place by 2018, NHS chief says
- Health board says £60m cuts and closure paper ‘not final’
- Cold weather prompts health warning for ill and older people
- Unit on new Glasgow hospital campus must improve elderly care
- Health and social care integration faces major challenges
- Health gap between rich and poor pensioners growing in Scotland with less well off having to work longer
- Loneliness ‘as damaging to health as poverty and poor housing’
- Lonely pensioners ‘ditch nuisance call blocking devices’
- Taxpayers’ Alliance: Cut pensioner benefits ‘immediately
- Tory Liam Fox calls for savage cuts to pensioner benefits
- Glasgow’s elderly care challenge may be echoed around the country
- Warning over rural healthcare for older people
- Easterhouse campaigners call for pensioners’ day to end isolation and loneliness of their ‘last gang’
- Grim reality of care home food revealed
- Robison pledges £100m for elderly care as poll says public trusts SNP most with NHS
- Scots live far from parents
- Concerns raised over dementia care in Scotland
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