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Learning for living and older people
Help the Aged has issued a new report, “Learning for Living”, highlighting skills that older people need to prevent isolation and exclusion, such as financial literacy, ICT literacy, health literacy and citizenship literacy.
Already, the report reveals, a third of older people report feeling out of touch with modern life and a further one in eight say they are often or always lonely. Help the Aged recommends action to ensure that people have the opportunities and resources to accumulate further skills and participate in learning as they grow older.
Among other things, the report suggested:
- Better information to be available through local authorities – many local authorities have no older people strategy.
- Efforts should be made by government and employers to ensure that age discriminationin relation to learning opportunities is eradicated.
- Older people’s forums, day centres, social clubs and lunch clubs should be strongly supported as key community hubs for older people.
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