Ransackers on Radio 4

On 30th June 2008, June Kathchild, Ransackers development officer, appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Learning Curve'

Ransackers is a BGOP initiative, hosted at CPA, that provides a higher education experience for older people who have not had the opportunity earlier in life.

Listen again to the Learning Curve programme

Age Discrimination in Health and Social Care

On 26th June 2008, to coincide with the launch of the first draft of the Equalities Bill in the House of Commons by Equalities Minister Harriet Harman, the UK Department of Health released four reports on Age Inequality in Health, Mental Health and Social Care commissioned by the department.

The reports include a review of the likely costs and benefits of legislation to outlaw age discrimination in health and social care, carried out by the Centre for Policy on Ageing.

View the CPA report | Link to all four reports on DH website

Researching Age and Multiple Discrimination

A new report published by the Centre suggests that a rights based agenda to tackle inequalities relies heavily on identity categories, such as 'older people'. But our everyday lives, including experiences of discrimination, rarely unfold according to neat categories of social difference. Consequently there is a need to engage with everyday experiences of discrimination and thereby to address the complexities of age-based inequalities. This report considers some of the problems associated with certain categories that apply to later life. The report's editors are Richard Ward and Bill Bytheway, and it is part of a series on ageing research from CPA and the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies, the Open University. For more information and order details click here.

CPA celebrates its 60th anniversary, 1947-2007

The Centre for Policy on Ageing celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007. The organisation, originally known as the National Corporation for the Care of Old People (NCCOP), came into being on 1 August 1947, as a result of an inquiry into the conditions in which older people were living, chaired by B. Seebohm Rowntree under the auspices of the Nuffield Foundation. One of the recommendations made by the inquiry was the establishment of a body which would engage in research and the dissemination of information on older people. In this role, alongside its grant giving activities, the Corporation, later to become the Centre for Policy on Ageing, examined a host of social policy issues affecting older people and made recommendations for change to improve their lives.

National Database of Ageing Research (NDAR)

Researchers are invited to add details of current research projects to the National Database of Ageing Research (NDAR) - a freely available online resource established by the Centre for Policy on Ageing. Originally published by CPA in directory format (from 1955 onwards), NDAR aims to be a fully comprehensive resource of recent and ongoing research within the UK on all non-medical aspects of ageing and older age. The intention is to make research activities easily accessible to researchers and users of research, and to develop a network of shared learning. It is hoped that full details of research projects within the New Dynamics of Ageing and other research programmes will be tracked via NDAR. More

The Centre for Policy on Ageing was commissioned by the Department of Health to create and host an on-line resource for practitioners implementing the Single Assessment Process. The resource, which is freely accessible, holds a wealth of material to assist multi agency working. The aim is to provide access to information, in all its various forms, that can be shared nationally to support work around SAP, share good practice and reduce duplication of effort. The resource is continually updated to reflect new issues and practice, including eSAP, the Common Assessment Framework and self assessment. More

'Listen to What I'm Saying - person centred care and the Single Assessment Process'

This training film commissioned by the former North West London Strategic Health Authority and the Department of Health is available on video only free of charge exclusively from the Centre for Policy on Ageing. To order call 020 7553 6500, email video@cpa.org.uk Further details and documentation are available on the SAP resource www.cpa.org.uk/sap/dvd The DVD format is no longer available - all copies have been distributed.

The Forum for Older People in Prison - and SAP

The Forum for Older People in Prison was convened to address the needs of older people in prison. It regards current policy to transfer healthcare responsibilities to PCTs, and implementation of SAP in the prison environment, as a potential avenue to improve the situation regarding the health and social care of older prisoners. It has resolved to support the successful implementation of this process. The Forum is facilitated by Age Concern England and includes the Prison Reform Trust, the Inspectorate, Restore50Plus, the Centre for Policy on Ageing, Women in Prison, Nacro, the Howard League and several others. For more information on the Forum's work click here.

The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research series of seminars and publications

CPA with the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies at the Open University hosts seminars to discuss methods of research on ageing and the papers are published for wider distribution. The last seminar on 'Co-production, Participation or What? Critical Perspectives on Participatory Research Involving Older People' was held on Friday, 23 May 2008 in London. A report from the seminar will be available in due course.

The reports on Making Observations: The Potential of Observation Methods for Gerontology and Researching Age and Multiple Discrimination are now available. Order copies of the reports direct from Central Books

To be included on the seminar mailing list email aclark@cpa.org.uk