Shelagh Marshall

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• Shelagh Marshall
• Chair
• Future Years Regional Forum on Ageing

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• Regional Forum on Ageing
• Why the research.
• Our calls for action

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Mission Statement

• Enhance the quality of life and increase the
  opportunities of current and future older people
  within the Region.
• Objective
• To act as a forum for highlighting and
  responding effectively to the key issues arising
  from the ageing population of the Region
• Aims
• Influencing public policy-makers, private and
  independent organisations on ageing issues and
  the resource of older people
• Improving communication with older people
  representatives and other stakeholders on ageing
  issues
• Promoting the awareness of Age Discrimination
  issues and perspectives

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Activities - 1

• Work in partnership with interested groups
  reflective of the diversity of the regions
  population
• Share information and resources
• Support initiatives and developments relevant to
  the regions ageing population and undertake
  specific work
• Communicate between a range of agencies and
  stakeholders

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Activities- 2

• Influence the developments and strategies across
  the region
• Engage with older people to ensure their
  involvement in consultation around key regional
  strategic developments
• Conduct research with specific partners

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Who is involved so far.

• Yorkshire Forward
• Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Assembly
  Government Office Yorkshire and the Humber
  Regional Strategic Health Authority
• University Representatives
• Federation of Small Businesses
• Age Concern England
• Help the Aged
• Better Government for Older People
• National Pensioners Convention
• TUC Retired Members Forum
• Plus a database of over 400 named organisations

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• Future Years Facing the midlife challenge in
  Yorkshire Humber report contents
• Population trends
• Labour market analysis
• Health Income and Employment
• Employability
• Regional demand for Labour
• Skills Learning
• Carers
• The Social economy

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• Future Years Calls for Action
• Set the work plan for the Forum
• Age management strategies
• Health
• Education
• Carers Social economy
• Employers across the region

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• Age management strategies
• Increase the number of employers that have active
  age management strategies
• Increase the sharing of good practice between
  public and private sectors
• Regional policies and strategies must reflect a
  stronger awareness of the needs of the 50-69 year
  age group
• Health
• Increase preventive health programmes in
  workplaces
• Promote further initiatives that support
  collaboration between primary care and local
  workplaces and occupational health services
• Further promotion of the NHS disease management
  programme

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Education

• Targets for 50 population to be included in the
  Framework for Regional Education and Skills
  Action (FRESA),
• Introduce monitoring of course participation in
  FE colleges for different age groups
• More active lobbying by regional agencies of
  central government on the needs of 50 age group
  for lifelong learning and appropriate funding
• An expansion of the number of local learning
  networks
• Expand the workplace training projects that offer
  re-skilling and skills development for those 50

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Carers

• increase in the number of projects for carers
  that combine increased access to lifelong
  learning and employment, throughout the region
• develop innovative caring arrangements for
  dependants for those wishing to be in paid
  employment

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Social Economy

• Increase in monitoring of 50 participation in
  voluntary and community activities
• Develop and enhance the skills base of those 50
  in supporting the development and changing role
  of the voluntary community Sector
• An expansion of social enterprises that provide
  job brokerage/ recruitment services for older
  people (50)

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Additional Research needed

• Additional understanding of the differences of
  demographic change within the sub regions and
  specific community issues.
• Those aged 50 expectations in later life
• Economic and Social well being what does this
  mean to those aged 50 in Yorkshire Humber
• Better understanding of the role that the 50-69
  age group have in informal caring across the
  region
• Support needed for those aged 50 wanting to
  become self employed

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