To engage the Wealth Of Wisdom to be
found amongst older people
AGEISM IN THE NHS
77% of General Practitioners taking part in an NOP survey in 2000 thought age limits existed in the NHS, and 16% admitted to not referring patients to secondary care because they thought they would not get treatment because of their age.
The NHS Improvement Plan: putting people at the heart of public service (2004) sets the following targets:
- by 2010, 40% reduction in death from coronary heart disease – in people under 75 years of age;
- by 2010, 20% reduction in death from cancer – in people under 75 years of age
CAMPAIGNING
IN SUPPORT OF STANDARD ONE OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR OLDER PEOPLE TO ERADICATE AGEISM FROM THE NHS
Putting the
WOW
into retirement
