Older people

What the government is doing about older people

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Guidance and regulation

1. Pension Credit factsheet
   • Guidance
   • 22 August 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
2. Pension Credit toolkit
   • Guidance
   • 5 April 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
3. Help and support for older workers
   • Guidance
   • 29 July 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
4. Pension Credit: technical guidance
   • Guidance
   • 8 July 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
5. Cold weather plan: action cards for cold weather alert service
   • Guidance
   • 20 October 2014
   • Public Health England

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News and communications

6 December 2017 — Case study

Dancing in Time

Public Health England

1. Government helps dementia sufferers in fight against nuisance calls
   • 6 April 2017
   • Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
   • Press release
2. Shadow Robot: a helping hand to achieve independent living
   • 5 May 2016
   • Innovate UK
   • Case study
3. Kicking age discrimination into touch
   • 18 April 2016
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Press release
4. 50-plus employment rate at record high
   • 14 August 2015
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. Planning and preparing for later life: social survey feasibility study
   • 6 February 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Research
2. Views on the ageing society: survey of older people
   • 15 November 2018
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
3. Attitudes to working in later life: British Social Attitudes 2015
   • 8 December 2016
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Research
4. Understanding digital engagement in later life
   • 29 January 2016
   • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
   • Research
5. Employer attitudes to fuller working lives
   • 11 March 2015
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Capping early exit charges for members of occupational pension schemes
   • 15 November 2016
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 16 August 2016
2. Helping older people maintain a healthy diet: a review of what works
   • 2 February 2017
   • Public Health England
   • Impact assessment
3. 2010 to 2015 government policy: older people
   • 8 May 2015
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Policy paper
4. Fuller Working Lives: a framework for action
   • 13 June 2014
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Policy paper
5. State Pension age timetable
   • 15 May 2014
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Policy paper

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Organisations

1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. Public Health England
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
5. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. HM Treasury

1. Innovate UK