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Specific housing support for the elderly?

I have been thinking recently about specific housing support for elderly people after a personal experience with a grandparent.
Often, elderly people have little available funds to move out of a house that has become impractical (size, stairs etc). This is all very well if the person owns the house and can afford to move […]

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Festival of Ideas Entry from Opportunity Links

What is the problem you are working to solve?
An elderly person’s decisions on independent living are often not carried out in isolation. It is frequently a family decision involving partner, siblings or children. Finding care and support for an older relative can be a long, drawn out process that is often conducted at a […]

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The case for information

Any choice based agenda crucially requires the consumer of services to have excellent access to high quality information to inform their decisions. As with any market, open access to information is critical for it to function. If any party is denied this, then the market and the benefits of a market approach, start to disappear.
This […]

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