Hospitals in Wales have yet to show significant improvements in the way older people are treated, says the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.
BBC: Elderly care change 'is not showing,' says commissioner
The more healthy people available to pay for those in the pool who are ill (translation- the older people), the better the system works and the lower our premium charges should go.
The point that Rita made, listening to people, the older people, encouraging and supporting them in a mentoring role, listening too to the young people, that's what we are seeking to do with the Children's Fund which is focused on getting in there early.
They don't want to see them opening homes, but would like councils to pay fully for the cost of caring for the older people housed by the private sector on their behalf.
Over the past decade the majority of older people who required care in Belfast used the private sector.
The WRVS said the report highlighted the vital role transport played in the lives of older people, keeping them connected to local communities, services, family and friends.
At the same time, the number of people older than 55 watching The Daily Show rose by 25%, 22% for The Colbert Report.
Ruth Isden, Age UK public services programme manager, said there was an "absolute need" to reform the funding of social care as it was compromising the care given to older people across the country.
Even at the level of the economy, pointing the finger at older people turns out to be unfair.
States that have imposed community rating in the individual market have discovered that the total number of uninsured people rises rather than falls, because the number of older people who gain coverage due to premium reductions is more than offset by the number of younger people who drop their coverage due premiums hikes.
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Ms Rochira said she accepted there had been a more rigorous approach by the NHS in Wales and Welsh government to the issue of the dignity of older people undergoing hospital care.
BBC: Elderly care change 'is not showing,' says commissioner
Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
Yes, the older people in the Salford community, where I work, they remember it as it was.
The older people move up to the family homes, buying the houses of people who are selling out so they can buy retirement houses.
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Instead of probably snickering to yourselves while the older people in the crowd flick their Bics and the kids turn on their iPhone Bic apps you could have been playing of few your less popular songs.
Prof James Sefton, of Imperial College, London, a former adviser to the Treasury, told the committee young people were effectively subsidising the older generation - and he could not understand why they were not protesting about it.
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The report's recommendations have also been endorsed by the older people's commissioner for Wales and Citizen's Advice Cymru.
The older church people interpreted, and the congregation leaned in, to hear the miracle.
Labour said the move would worry older people and the Conservatives said it suggested the SNP would cut pensions.
In the scenario that combined cell phones with the heaviest traffic, older people took several seconds longer to start crossing than the college students.
Using an eye tracker, she found that college-age people rotate the bottles, enabling them to see all the informational stickers that pharmacists attach, whereas older people focus on just the bottle's large white label.
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The East Suffolk Travellers Association (Esta) had criticised the ban and the effect it had on older people.
If nurses get the care of older people right by applying the theory to practice, paying attention to feeding them and providing them with fluids, washing and cleaning them when they are unable to wash themselves, communicating with them and encouraging them through caring, kindness and compassion then caring for other patients will come naturally.
And the reason is that the older I get, the more time I spend meeting people in government or in the corporate arena, the more human everybody becomes.
Economic research published at Syracuse University in America suggests that the more wealth that older people inherit, the more likely they are to quit the labour market.
While the media continuously portrays older people as being the helpless victims of neglect, it turns out that they are using platforms like ours to have their say and improve services.
In the new UK scheme, older people nearing the end of their careers will also be able to join in, lending their skills on short trips or for two-year periods as mentors.
Following help from the older people's commissioner and Age Concern, the 78-year-old said he believed he would have electricity by Saturday.
The first minister said that to complement the UK Government's financial measures to reduce poverty among older people, The Executive had improved access to services and acted to tackle fuel poverty in particular.
It also said that the NHS and its staff needed to recognise that the "typical patient" was an older person and that the Wales strategy for older people needed to be embedded in nurse education, practice and care management.
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