Older & Bolder closed June 2013 This is an archived website
2013
‘Our Journey Together’ Conference report
On April 25 more than 150 individuals and groups who had been active in Older & Bolder campaigns participated in our final conference, ‘Our Journey Together’.
This downloadable report (PDF) records the conference highlights.
Continuing Campaigning
While Older & Bolder closes on 30th June 2013 we recognise that your journey continues. You have valuable skills and expertise. Many of you are experienced campaigners and lobbyists. Our hope is that you will use all of your capabilities to continue to advocate for changes that will make Ireland a better country to grow older in.
Regulation of homecare needed
Click here to read our commentary in last week's (June 4th 2013) Irish Times about how the regulation of homecare is lagging behind other areas: “It should be properly regulated in law and needs quality standards within a legal framework in the same way we now have in relation to nursing homecare.”
Bittersweet day for Older & Bolder
It was a bittersweet day for Advocacy group Older & Bolder when the organisation hosted its closing conference in Croke Park yesterday. The main focus of the event was to celebrate Older & Bolder's achievements and to encourage its member organisations to tackle the further challenges and targets with renewed energy.
Disability does not stop at 66
The Government’s cynical decision to discontinue the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant is today condemned by Older & Bolder. Ms. Patricia Conboy, director of Older & Bolder said: “Successive Governments have been acting illegally in the implementation of these schemes for 12 years and have knowingly done so for the past 4 years. This current Government is now achieving legality with an action that defies logic and compassion”.
Ageing Strategy on Cusp of Delivery
Older & Bolder has today 13th February met with Minister Kathleen Lynch who told us that the National Positive Ageing Strategy will be published in the coming weeks.
Closure of Older & Bolder
We are usually communicating about an item of campaign news but this message is about Older & Bolder itself. The grant funding we have been fortunate to receive from Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to an end and Older & Bolder is now preparing to close on June 30th 2013.
Older and younger activists let down by broken promises and budget cuts
Older and younger activists exchanged experiences, reviewed strategies and shared campaign stories at a joint workshop hosted by Older & Bolder and The Union of Students of Ireland (USI) on the 24th in the Ashling Hotel in Dublin. Both organisations had been very active throughout 2012, with Older & Bolder leading a national campaign to reverse the cuts to home help services and the USI campaigning against rising college fees and cuts to the maintenance grant.
