Standing up for sitting down
Older people’s charity, Anchor, is highlighting the dire need for the high street to reinvent itself as a new report predicts up to £4.5bn annual losses by 2030, if retailers fail to attract the grey ...
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The travails of the elderly shopper
Automated checkout machines put off about a quarter of older people from going shopping, a survey from a housing charity for the elderly suggests. They can find the automated checkouts “intimidating” ...
Charities criticise Government’s continued failure to plan for our rapidly ageing society
Charities call for an urgent focus on the ‘crisis in social care’ and urge an extended remit for the planned auto-enrolment review. A group of national charities have criticised the Government’s “incr ...
Film and TV charity launches new discounted care offer
In an unusual charity partnership, the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF) has teamed up with the care and housing provider, Anchor, to offer a discount in any Anchor care home to anyone who ...