Older & Bolder closed June 2013 This is an archived website
2013
Older people from all parts of Ireland mark Older & Bolder’s closing conference [02/05/2013]
Older people from all parts of Ireland participated in Older & Bolder’s closing conference on April 25 in the Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin. It was a bittersweet occasion.
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.
Publication of the National Positive Ageing Strategy [24/04/13]
Older & Bolder congratulates Minister Kathleen Lynch on the publication of the National Positive Ageing Strategy.
Director of Older & Bolder, Patricia Conboy said, “Older & Bolder welcomes the holistic view of ageing that the strategy embraces, the recognition for the need for a whole-of-government response and specific health-related commitments that speak to our recent Make Home Work campaign”.
DISABILITY DOES NOT STOP AT 66 YEARS [27/02/13]
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 THE CUSP OF DELIVERY [13/02/13]
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.
Older & Bolder Director, Patricia Conboy said, “Older & Bolder welcomes the imminent publication of the National Positive Ageing Strategy. Minister Kathleen Lynch informed us that the strategy has been signed off by the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy. It is now en route to Government and we anticipate that it will be published in the coming weeks”.
OLDER & YOUNGER ACTIVISTS LET DOWN BY BROKEN PROMISES AND BUDGET CUTS [25/01/13]
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.
