Older people face discrimination
in employment, in health care, and as consumers. Successive Government's
have legislated against discrimination by gender, religion, race
and disability, but have not done so for age.
Careers Partnership (UK)
works with you one to one, providing in-depth careers counselling
and jobsearch support for the middle and later stages of your career.
EFA is a network of employers
confronting age discrimination in the workplace. Launched in May
1996, EFA is the leading authority on age and employment. The Employers
Forum on Age is a network created by employers for employers. It
is the first ever employer-led initiative that confronts the changes
needed to achieve the business benefit of a mixed-age workforce.
Mature
Times is a publication for the over 50s and is a unique, free, campaigning,
monthly newspaper with a circulation of over 110,000 across a range
of national outlets. It has been in existence for over 14 years
and was relaunched under the current ownership in September 2004.
It now has an estimated readership of over 275,000 for the newspaper,
a very active website and an increasing number of subscriptions
to its eNewsletter; launched in January 2005.
NESTA
( the National Endowment for Science, Technology and
the Arts, the UK's innovation agency) has just launched a new programme
in Scotland called ‘Age Unlimited'.
They
are looking for people in their 50s and 60s in Scotland to come
forward with new ideas that could be turned into live community
projects which would improve the lives of older people ( people
in their 70s, 80s and above).
They
will give the best ideas support and funding to get them off the
ground. More information about the Age Unlimited programme can be
found on their website.
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