Press Releases
Age UK response to Portas report
Tuesday 13th December 2011
Couples lose out with new reform
Thursday 8th December 2011
Age UK responds National Audit Office report, 'The Care Quality Commission Regulating the quality and safety of health and adult social care'
Friday 2nd December 2011
Age UK asks MPs to sign the pledge and reduce the number of winter deaths
Friday 2nd December 2011
AGE UK's response to Steve Webb's announcement on Auto-Enrolment.
Tuesday 29th November 2011
Age UK comment on FPAG annual report and announcement of green deal consultation
Thursday 24th November 2011
Age UK statement on the EHRC home care enquiry
Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Age UK Statement on numbers of excess winter deaths
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Age UK's response to the treasury select committee's report on the future of cheques
Wednesday 16th November 2011
Age UK responds to High Court of Justice ruling against Isle of Wight County Council's decisions to restrict eligibility criteria for adult social care services
Friday 11th November 2011
Age UK links up with the Met Office to save lives this winter
Friday 11th November 2011
Age UK behind new care commission
Thursday 3rd November 2011
Age UK response to DECC announcement that incentives for buying renewable energy schemes will fall
Monday 31st October 2011
Age UK response to ONS life expectancy figures
Wednesday 19th October 2011
Age UK response to Hills interim review on fuel poverty
Wednesday 19th October 2011
Response to state age changes
Thursday 13th October 2011
Summit highlights need for better falls prevention
Wednesday 5th October 2011
Duncan Smith issues inflation warning
Monday 3rd October 2011
Age Action Alliance is launched
Friday 30th September 2011
Women over 55 falling out of love with Cameron
Friday 30th September 2011
Britain's older workers get the legal right to work beyond 65
Friday 30th September 2011
Pakistan floods: We distribute kits to 1,000 people
Monday 19th September 2011
Age UK calls on all parties to park politics and work together urgently to overhaul the collapsing care system
Friday 16th September 2011
Age UK statement on The Care Quality Commision's 'State of Care' report
Thursday 15th September 2011
Age UK comment on NAO report: 'Oversight of user choice and provider competition in care markets'
Thursday 15th September 2011
Cuts to care inspections put patients at risk
Wednesday 14th September 2011
Last chance for cheques: Age UK calls on Payment Council to act before its too late
Wednesday 14th September 2011
State pension age campaigners visit No 10
Tuesday 13th September 2011
Age UK comment in response to ONS release - recession fuels sharp drop in personal pension contributions
Wednesday 7th September 2011
Men over 65 faring less well: Age UK's response to latest ONS healthy life expectancy figures
Wednesday 31st August 2011
Disabled and older people lose three million discounts as government ends concessionary coach fares
Thursday 25th August 2011
New drug hope for heart failure patients
Friday 19th August 2011
Medical research given £800m boost
Thursday 18th August 2011
Cells 'resistant to stroke damage'
Thursday 18th August 2011
Over-55s face £984.28 additional annual living costs
Friday 12th August 2011
Just under half (45 per cent) of all households in fuel poverty
Thursday 14th July 2011
Age UK response to the OBR's report on the fiscal sustainability of the economy
Wednesday 13th July 2011
AGE UK statement on Payments Council decision to keep cheques
Wednesday 13th July 2011
New research shows how to reduce pensioner poverty
Tuesday 12th July 2011
Age UK response to the Public Service White Paper
Tuesday 12th July 2011
Age UK comment on Southern Cross
Monday 11th July 2011
New research shows how to reduce pensioner poverty
Monday 11th July 2011
Age UK provides assistance to older people in Ethiopia
Wednesday 6th July 2011
Supreme Court rejects former ballerina's appeal for basic right - care to go to the toilet
Wednesday 6th July 2011
Age UK response to the Dilnot Commission recommendations
Monday 4th July 2011
Age UK comment on abolition of cheque guarantee card
Wednesday 29th June 2011
Spending on older people's care to be cut by 8.4 per cent
Monday 27th June 2011
73 per cent of older people still using cheques, research shows
Thursday 23rd June 2011
Poor vision leads to falls for 270,000 over-60s
Tuesday 21st June 2011
Statement on ECHR's inquiry into the failure of protecting the rights of older people receiving care at home
Monday 20th June 2011
Comment on falls statistics
Wednesday 15th June 2011
Age UK statement in response to Ed Milliband speech today on care
Tuesday 7th June 2011
Comment on second batch of CQC spot check reports
Thursday 2nd June 2011
Comment on Care Quality Commission spot check report
Thursday 26th May 2011
Local councillors out of touch with older people
Monday 23rd May 2011
Cold weather payments of over £3.5m
Monday 23rd May 2011
Age UK respons to the Which? report showing older people struggling to get travel insurance
Monday 23rd May 2011
Age UK statement on todays High Court judgement on adult social care
Friday 20th May 2011
'Don't move the goal posts again' - women campaign against increase to state pension age
Wednesday 18th May 2011
Our response to cuts in social care
Tuesday 19th April 2011
Hope yet for the future of cheques
Thursday 14th April 2011
Patients denied routine operations - report
Thursday 14th April 2011
Rising costs leaving half of older people living on the breadline
Thursday 14th April 2011
Age UK response to ONS inflation figures
Tuesday 12th April 2011
Age UK responds to state pension age debate in the HoL
Thursday 31st March 2011
Age UK response to adult social care consultation
Thursday 31st March 2011
Millions forced to wait longer for pensions
Wednesday 30th March 2011
Age UK comment on grandparents
Monday 28th March 2011
Age UK statement on HM Revenue and Customs tax code error
Monday 28th March 2011
Age UK response to the Budget
Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Budget 2011: Pre-Budget briefing from Age UK
Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Older Brits amongst Europe's most web-savvy
Tuesday 22nd March 2011
60 per cent of population think spending cuts have left the country less prepared for an ageing population
Tuesday 8th March 2011
Age UK's response to girocheque announcement
Thursday 3rd March 2011
Age UK shows age discrimination is rife in Europe
Thursday 3rd March 2011
Comment on ONS report on people working later
Thursday 3rd March 2011
Comment on the BUPA 'Who Cares' report
Thursday 24th February 2011
Over 55s an average 30 pound per month worse off
Tuesday 15th February 2011
Age UK response to Health Service Ombudsman report
Monday 14th February 2011
Age UK launches equity release advice service
Wednesday 9th February 2011
Age UK statement on postcode lottery for social care in the home
Thursday 20th January 2011
Hats off to the nation's knitters as 'Big Knit' raises nearly £1m for people in later life
Monday 17th January 2011
Our responses to Pensions Bill and default retirement age announcement
Thursday 13th January 2011
Age UK comment on new guidelines for falls
Thursday 13th January 2011
Older Haitians still ignored by relief effort
Wednesday 12th January 2011
Age UK's comment on Miriam O'Reilly's ageism case against the BBC
Tuesday 11th January 2011
What's big, round, orange and furry?
Monday 10th January 2011
One year on - older Haitians still ignored by relief effort
Friday 7th January 2011
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