About Age Concern
Age Concern is the UK 's largest organisation working with and for older people.
Age Concern works locally, nationally and internationally:
We provide direct help to over a million older people each year through our local services. To find your local Age Concern or learn more about our services please click here .
Our national work includes campaigning, a national information line, training and a range of products and services to find out more click here. Age Concerns work nationally in , , and . Find out more about national Age Concerns here.
We have many links with European and international organisations for older people. Find out more about this aspect of Age Concern's work by clicking here.
Our mission
Our mission is to promote the well-being of all older people and to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
Principles
Values and principles underpin what we do, why we do it, and guide how we work to achieve our mission. Our underlying principles are:
- Ageism is unacceptable: we are against all forms of unfair discrimination, and challenge unfair treatment on grounds of age
- All people have the right to make decisions about their lives: we help older people to discover and exercise these rights
- People less able to help themselves should be offered support: we seek to support older people to live their lives with dignity
- Diversity is valued in all that we do: we recognise the diversity of older people and their different needs, choices, cultures and values
- It is only through working together that we can use our local, regional and national presence to the greatest effect.
Corporate priorities 2004 - 2007
- To ensure that older people in the have an adequate income in later life
- To reduce ageism and to diminish the incidence of age discrimination experienced by older people
- To enable Age Concern provide quality services which help older people feel secure, maintain their physical independence, and promote their emotional well-being
- To create an Age Concern membership which offers everyone over 50 an appropriate package of benefits and opportunities
- To deliver through and across Age Concern a step increase in net income generation.
Copyright ©2006 Age Concern England. Tel: 020 8765 7200 Fax: 020 8765 7211 Registered Charity No.261794.
Latest Press Releases
- Half of pensioners struggling financially as flagship benefit fails thousands
- Age concern's response to Labour Conference vote on windfall energy tax
- Government Equality Bill - Help the Aged & Age Concern joint response
- Age Concern's response to proposals for anonymity for older people in court
- AGE CONCERN RESPONDS TO THE PRIME MINISTER’S DRAFT QUEEN’S SPEECH
- Age Concern reveals huge public worries about quality of care
- NEW FIGURES SHOW GOVERNMENT FUEL POVERTY STRATEGY IN DISARRAY
- MORE THAN A MILLION OLDER PEOPLE SHUT OUT BY GOVERNMENT WARNS NEW REPORT
- Age Concern responds to pensions settlement
- Age Concern calls on Government to introduce screening for older men for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAAs) – the third most common cause of death for older men
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