Contents
Foreword 5
Summary: Enabling people to live longer, more prosperous and healthier lives 7
Section 1 - Extending working lives 10
Later working 10
Deferring pensions 10
Moving away from 'cliffedge retirement' 10
Health& wellbeing of the workforce 12
Back to work support 13
Section 2 - Secure retirement 14
Reintroduction of earnings link 14
Automatic enrolment 14
Single-tier pension 15
Reform of the pensions market 15
Working with the pensions industry and consumer organisations 16
Reinvigorating workplace pensions 16
Fiscal Sustainability 17
Intergenerational Fairness 18
Section 3 - The health and care system 19
National health and care priorities 19
Long term conditions - vulnerable older people's plan 20
Technology 21
Compassionate care 22
Voice of the patient 24
NHS: Call to Action 24
Dementia 24
Mental health 25
Reform of care and support 25
Integration 26
Personalised care 28
National eligibility criteria for adult care and support 29
Carers 29
Changing the way we pay for care 30
Using the value on our homes 31
Section 4 - Enabling, promoting and supporting independence 33
Housing and wider public services 33
Transport 35
Loneliness and isolation 35
Volunteering and social participation 36
Section 5 - Looking to the Future 38
Horizon scanning 38
The Fiscal Sustainability Report 38
What Works initiative 39
Analysis of the challenges of an ageing society 39