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Age UK is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, [1] formed on 25 February 2009 and launched on 1 April 2009, as a merging of Age Concern England and Help the Aged. [ 2 ] Despite the national merger, many local Age Concern charities decided not to become brand partners of Age UK and continued as independent and completely separate Age ...
Before the 18th century, the United Kingdom retained an age structure universal to societies in the first stage of the transition theory, with high fertility rates and high mortality rates, [3] in the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution began, kickstarting the country's transition into the second phase: mortality rates declined but ...
Age International is a charity in the UK, focused on supporting older people around the world. [1] Age International is the trading name of HelpAge International UK. [2] Age International is a subsidiary charity of Age UK, and was founded on 24 April 2012 by Age UK and HelpAge International. [3] Age International is a member of the HelpAge ...
Age Concern's origins are in the United Kingdom and can be traced back to a realisation in that country of the effects on aged people of the Second World War; the dislocation and breakdown of family life arising out of conscription led to a recognition that existing poor laws failed to provide effective support for old people separated from family support networks.
The rationale for the age rise was that people would be living longer in the future. [14] This was put into effect by the Pensions Act 2007. However, when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition took power, the Pensions Act 2011 [15] accelerated the rise of the state pension age to 66 for both men and women by 6 October 2020. [16]
Journal of Social Policy 37.4 (2008): 579-595. on the United Kingdom online; Minkler, Meredith, and Carroll L. Estes, eds. Readings in the political economy of aging (1984) Myles, John. "Postwar capitalism and the extension of social security into a retirement wage." in Critical perspectives on aging (Routledge, 2020) pp. 293–309.
The age of majority in England is 18, having been reduced from 21 by the Family Law Reform Act 1969. At that age persons are considered to acquire capacity in full to enter into legally binding contracts (thus to hold a credit card and take out a loan), to vote in elections, to buy tobacco and cigarettes and have a tattoo.
Age Scotland is the national charity for older people in Scotland, UK. It is based in Edinburgh. This registered charity [1] formed on 1 April 2009 by the merger of Help the Aged in Scotland and Age Concern Scotland. [2] [3] It operated under its joint legacy brands as "Age Concern and Help the Aged in Scotland" until the new brand launched in ...