| A better environment in nursing homes where they can have pets |
|
1 |
| A better health service and easy assess to all services |
|
1 |
| A better pension |
|
1 |
| A better pension so as older people can eat well and heat their homes |
|
1 |
| A better standard of living |
|
1 |
| A bigger pension |
|
3 |
| A decent and fairer pension. |
|
1 |
| A decent increase in the state pension |
|
1 |
| A decent standard of living |
|
1 |
| A fair standard of pension for everyone |
|
1 |
| A good pension provided by the government |
|
1 |
| A realistic amount of money to live on |
|
1 |
| A reasonable rise in the state pension |
|
1 |
| A voice to hear their concerns |
|
1 |
| A women with good company |
|
1 |
| Ability to change their skills and find structured employment late in life |
|
1 |
| Ability to work late in life |
|
1 |
| Access to better provisions and more support |
|
1 |
| Access to free transport must be maintained |
|
1 |
| Access to good healthcare. The doctor surgery has a 3 week waiting list |
|
1 |
| Activities and keep them active |
|
1 |
| Activities to fill their day |
|
1 |
| Adapt houses to suit. |
|
1 |
| Address loneliness and isolation |
|
2 |
| Address suitable housing issue |
|
1 |
| Advice on what is available for them with regards to the dentist and doctors etc. This is very important for older poeple |
|
1 |
| Advocate for rights and entitlements |
|
1 |
| Age for working increased |
|
1 |
| All I need is a new man to enterain me |
|
1 |
| All access to healthcare of any type. Irrespective of their age |
|
1 |
| All around care and support in terms of nursing care and suitable medical attention |
|
1 |
| All jobs should provide pensions after 10 years of employment |
|
1 |
| Alleviate loneliness |
|
1 |
| Allow people to stay on at work if they so choose |
|
1 |
| Allow people to work as long as they want to |
|
1 |
| Allow people to work on if they want to work on after 65/66 |
|
1 |
| An improved health service |
|
1 |
| Arrange more visits to older people to fund out how they are coping |
|
1 |
| Arrange visits, social events, generally get older people out and about |
|
1 |
| As I have never heard of a commissioner, older people should be more aware there is one so that they can bring up important issues |
|
1 |
| Avoid cuts |
|
1 |
| Be proactive |
|
1 |
| Befriending people who are lonely |
|
1 |
| Better access to health care for those with mobility issues |
|
1 |
| Better access to healthcare |
|
2 |
| Better access to social care |
|
1 |
| Better access to social care and benefits |
|
1 |
| Better attention for older people left on their own particularly through loss of spouse |
|
1 |
| Better benefits |
|
10 |
| Better benefits and increased state pension |
|
1 |
| Better benefits better heating bills |
|
1 |
| Better benefits so they can afford heat and food |
|
1 |
| Better benefits. Heating TV licence |
|
1 |
| Better care |
|
2 |
| Better care amd more of it |
|
1 |
| Better care at home or in a care home residential |
|
1 |
| Better care for older people |
|
1 |
| Better care for older people more activities to do |
|
1 |
| Better care home facilities which would not take someone's life savings to keep them there |
|
1 |
| Better care homes |
|
1 |
| Better care in care homes |
|
1 |
| Better care in hospital |
|
1 |
| Better care in nursing homes and a better pension |
|
1 |
| Better care in their own homes when needed |
|
1 |
| Better care in their own homes, more facilities and home visits. |
|
1 |
| Better caring |
|
1 |
| Better facilities in the community to encourage older people to communicate. |
|
1 |
| Better facilities in the community, like more home help |
|
1 |
| Better financial help |
|
3 |
| Better financial help to live comfortable |
|
1 |
| Better financial help. Help them to borrow money |
|
1 |
| Better financial security |
|
1 |
| Better financial support |
|
1 |
| Better health and social care |
|
1 |
| Better health care |
|
16 |
| Better health care / better pensions |
|
1 |
| Better health care sort out this waiting in a and e for hours |
|
1 |
| Better health care system |
|
1 |
| Better health options |
|
1 |
| Better health service |
|
1 |
| Better healthcare |
|
4 |
| Better healthcare and quicker access to healthcare |
|
1 |
| Better healthcare system |
|
1 |
| Better heating |
|
1 |
| Better heating allowance |
|
1 |
| Better home care |
|
3 |
| Better home help when needed |
|
1 |
| Better hospital care |
|
1 |
| Better housing |
|
1 |
| Better jobs |
|
1 |
| Better medical help |
|
1 |
| Better money |
|
1 |
| Better monies |
|
1 |
| Better monies when they retire |
|
1 |
| Better monitoring nursing homes |
|
1 |
| Better nursing homes |
|
1 |
| Better off financially |
|
1 |
| Better pension |
|
25 |
| Better pension Neighbourhood watch |
|
1 |
| Better pension payments |
|
1 |
| Better pension so they can stay warm in winter and afford better food |
|
1 |
| Better pension to heat the house and eat adequately |
|
1 |
| Better pensions |
|
11 |
| Better pensions and more awareness |
|
1 |
| Better pensions and other benefits |
|
1 |
| Better pensions for older people |
|
1 |
| Better pensions for people who have worked all their lives |
|
1 |
| Better police protection |
|
1 |
| Better protection for older people against crime, eg alarms fitted so they could press an alarm should they be broken into |
|
1 |
| Better protection for their homes if they have to go into nursing home |
|
1 |
| Better provision for fuel allowance in winter |
|
1 |
| Better provision for older people in health care |
|
1 |
| Better provision of carers in their own homes if needed |
|
1 |
| Better provision of nursing homes. People should not have to pay or sell their homes to cover the costs |
|
1 |
| Better social care as they are lonely |
|
1 |
| Better social care when needed ie residential care |
|
1 |
| Better social facilities so as people are not lonely |
|
1 |
| Better state pension |
|
1 |
| Better support |
|
1 |
| Better support for families looking after elderly relatives |
|
1 |
| Better system for heating |
|
1 |
| Better transport |
|
2 |
| Better transport in rural areas and better information |
|
1 |
| Better treatment all over |
|
1 |
| Better winter fuel payment with none to those who can afford it |
|
1 |
| Bigger pension |
|
2 |
| Bigger pensions |
|
2 |
| Bigger state pensions |
|
1 |
| Bring in euthanasia |
|
1 |
| Bus in rural areas to take them to community for company etc |
|
1 |
| Campaign for better pensions |
|
2 |
| Campaign for increased pension payments |
|
1 |
| Campaign for pensioners to have warm homes. |
|
1 |
| Campaign for their welfare rights |
|
1 |
| Campaign to spread the wealth from elderly who have plenty to those who have very little |
|
1 |
| Can't say |
|
1 |
| Can't suggest |
|
2 |
| Can't suggest anything |
|
1 |
| Can't think |
|
2 |
| Can't think of anything |
|
1 |
| Can't think of anything offhand |
|
1 |
| Can't think of one thing at this moment |
|
1 |
| Cannot think of any one particular thing |
|
3 |
| Cannot think of any one thing |
|
1 |
| Care and assistance with travelling and transport even only once a month. |
|
1 |
| Care facilities and support |
|
1 |
| Care for older people everywhere |
|
1 |
| Care in homes all over |
|
1 |
| Care in the community |
|
1 |
| Care in their own homes instead of going into old peoples homes as they would be more happy and it would cost less |
|
1 |
| Care within homes |
|
1 |
| Carers in the community need much much more time to spend with their patients. And more training for the carers themselves ; Training in respect of spotting early signs of ulcers and bedsores |
|
1 |
| Carers who visit staying for longer with each person |
|
1 |
| Central location to meet for lunch a few times per week |
|
1 |
| Cheaper fuel costs and better community care |
|
1 |
| Cheaper heating |
|
1 |
| Cheaper homes |
|
1 |
| Cheaper housing available for older people |
|
1 |
| Check they are properly cared for in hospital and at home |
|
1 |
| Choice for residential care in later years. Freedom to choose where they wish to spend their last years |
|
1 |
| Cleaning and laundry support |
|
1 |
| Company and support in terms of money when necessary |
|
1 |
| Company and things to attend lunch club |
|
1 |
| Continue with free transport |
|
1 |
| Creating activities within a social environment to enable their skills to be passed to younger people. |
|
1 |
| Crime prevention |
|
3 |
| Crime prevention against older people |
|
1 |
| Crime prevention is a big problem in this area |
|
1 |
| Cut all taxes |
|
1 |
| Deal with the problem of loneliness |
|
1 |
| Decent healthcare in a hospital |
|
1 |
| Dignity upheld and better healthcare |
|
1 |
| Do a better job for older people |
|
1 |
| Do home checks with them |
|
1 |
| Do something about loneliness |
|
2 |
| Do something about loneliness. Getting people out and about |
|
1 |
| Do something for loneliness in old people |
|
1 |
| Do something to help older people going to hospital, not having to wait for hours |
|
1 |
| Do something to see that they don't freeze |
|
1 |
| Doctors should have to visit them at home when needed instead of expecting them to go to the surgery |
|
1 |
| Don't know |
|
50 |
| Don't know I'm happy |
|
1 |
| Don't know what their needs are |
|
1 |
| Don't know what they do |
|
1 |
| Don't know. |
|
1 |
| Don't tax their private pensions |
|
1 |
| Dont know |
|
20 |
| Dont know maybe increase the pensions |
|
1 |
| Dont know what |
|
1 |
| Earlier retirement |
|
1 |
| Easier access to fitness regimes |
|
1 |
| Easier access to healthcare |
|
1 |
| Easier access to shops, doctors surgeries etc |
|
1 |
| Easy access to healthcare |
|
1 |
| Educate them so they can prepare for later life |
|
1 |
| Educate younger people to have more respect for their elders |
|
1 |
| Elderly people are largely forgotten about, left to fester. The Commissioner needs to represent them at all levels to ensure they get a fair deal as regards housing, warmth, welfare, benefits etc |
|
1 |
| Elderly people need supported and represented. The Commissioner should ensure that the elderly are taken into account when the Government are planning welfare reform. |
|
1 |
| Encourage families to take better care of their own |
|
1 |
| Encouraging older people to have plenty of hobbies |
|
1 |
| End penalties for those with savings |
|
1 |
| Engage directly with older people and listen/respond to what they identify |
|
1 |
| Ensure adequate nutrition and standard of living eg:heating etc.. |
|
1 |
| Ensure carers get proper breaks |
|
1 |
| Ensure health and safety is paramount, heat payments over the winter |
|
1 |
| Ensure no pensioner is living in poverty and if they are make sure they receive the help they need |
|
1 |
| Ensure no pensioners are in danger of suffering from hypothermia and that they are given the means to pay their heating bills |
|
1 |
| Ensure older people are cared for better |
|
1 |
| Ensure older people are catered for with regards to heating |
|
1 |
| Ensure pension and welfare rights are protected |
|
1 |
| Ensure pensioners are warm in their own houses |
|
1 |
| Ensure politicians make sure pensioners are looked after in terms of welfare, benefits and pensions |
|
1 |
| Ensure that all elderly people have an acceptable base level of care and welfare in the twilight years of their lives |
|
1 |
| Ensure that all pensioners have basic welfare provision in their homes, that is food, heating, water, care etc. |
|
1 |
| Ensure that their pension rights are preserved and that their interests are safeguarded as regards welfare |
|
1 |
| Ensure that they are kept warm |
|
1 |
| Ensure they all have enough heat and food |
|
1 |
| Ensure they are aware of what they can claim and how to do that |
|
1 |
| Ensure they are financially secure and are not left alone in old age, more carers |
|
1 |
| Ensure they are kept mentally alert with constant stimulus |
|
1 |
| Ensure they have adequate benefits to be warm and well fed |
|
1 |
| Ensure they have enough money for the basic essentials, at least |
|
1 |
| Ensure they have food and warmth |
|
1 |
| Ensure they have sufficient funds and support for the elderly who live at their homes |
|
1 |
| Ensure they have sufficient heating allowance, good food and support groups to visit |
|
1 |
| Ensure they're looked after |
|
1 |
| Ensuring financial benefits are sufficient |
|
1 |
| Ensuring their well being |
|
1 |
| Equal rights |
|
1 |
| Equal treatment with regards to healthcare and not left without help because of their age |
|
1 |
| Equality of pensions |
|
1 |
| Everyday concerns a community hall for residents |
|
1 |
| Facilitate people to live at home |
|
1 |
| Fair employment for all age groups |
|
1 |
| Fight for better benefits |
|
1 |
| Fight for rights |
|
1 |
| Financial aid |
|
2 |
| Financial end to let them have a better lifestyle |
|
1 |
| Financial equality with regard to pensions |
|
1 |
| Financial help |
|
2 |
| Financial help and more activities |
|
1 |
| Financial help for ordinary 9 to 5 workers. Greater pension |
|
1 |
| Financial support |
|
1 |
| Financial support improved |
|
1 |
| Finding better ways to distribute winter fuel payments - |
|
1 |
| Flexible retirement age |
|
1 |
| Food and heat |
|
1 |
| For those living alone more regular visits and general help to go shopping |
|
1 |
| Free TV, bus etc |
|
1 |
| Free car tax for older people low mileage use |
|
1 |
| Free dental care over 65 |
|
1 |
| Free hairdresser appointment for older ladies |
|
1 |
| Free hairdressing and beauty pampers provided for free |
|
1 |
| Free nursing care after 75 |
|
1 |
| Free nursing home for all |
|
1 |
| Free services for the elderly and not to be made to feel they are a charity items, when they use these free services which they have paid for all their lives in tax Bully tactics often used on elderly but no follow up service for them to report this bull |
|
1 |
| Free telephone |
|
1 |
| Free transport at the weekends |
|
1 |
| Free travel and winter fuel payments / access to home helps |
|
1 |
| General promotion. |
|
1 |
| Get a cure for Alzheimer's and dementia |
|
1 |
| Get better fuel allowance for older people |
|
1 |
| Get better health care and more generous benefits |
|
1 |
| Get known by older people |
|
1 |
| Get pensioners a better deal financially from the state. |
|
1 |
| Get people punished more for attacking them |
|
1 |
| Get them a better standard of living |
|
1 |
| Get them bigger pensions |
|
1 |
| Get them more money |
|
1 |
| Get them more money to live on |
|
1 |
| Get them out and about more. Some are very lonely. |
|
1 |
| Give advice |
|
1 |
| Give pensioners more help at their home with regards to heating and health care. |
|
1 |
| Give them a better pension |
|
1 |
| Give them a decent pension to live out their lives |
|
1 |
| Give them a decent standard of living |
|
1 |
| Give them a decent standard of living the state pension is ridiculous |
|
1 |
| Give them a reason for surviving |
|
1 |
| Give them adequate pension to live on |
|
1 |
| Give them an adequate pension to feed and heat themselves |
|
1 |
| Give them basics |
|
1 |
| Give them better benefits |
|
1 |
| Give them better pensions on retirement. |
|
1 |
| Give them better winter fuel payments an have enough food to eat |
|
1 |
| Give them more care |
|
1 |
| Give them more money |
|
6 |
| Give them more money and allow them to see their gp quickly without having to wait three weeks |
|
1 |
| Give them more money the people who worked for it |
|
1 |
| Give them opportunities to socialise more |
|
1 |
| Give them the quality of life and not put them into homes that haven't the proper facilities or qualified staff to care for them |
|
1 |
| Give them what they want and their lifestyle upheld |
|
1 |
| Given sufficient income to enjoy their last few years |
|
1 |
| Go into nursing homes and rid them of uncaring and inadequate staff. Work closer with the rqia to ensure that standards are maintained at all times. |
|
1 |
| Good healthcare |
|
1 |
| Good access to free health care quickly not having to wait for 3 /4 weeks |
|
1 |
| Good access to medical care |
|
1 |
| Good assessible health care |
|
1 |
| Good care package in the home, banking and food shopping |
|
1 |
| Good financial security |
|
1 |
| Good financial support |
|
1 |
| Good health care |
|
1 |
| Good health care for all ages |
|
1 |
| Good health care that is no charge |
|
1 |
| Good home support |
|
1 |
| Good social suppport where there is no family |
|
1 |
| Good support at home with home helps etc |
|
1 |
| Gp sugery should be 7days a week its too hard to get seen by my own doctor |
|
1 |
| Greater pension for some pensioners who are reliant on state benefits so they can afford better food and pay for heating. |
|
1 |
| Guarantee that people are looked in their old age |
|
1 |
| Happy with health care |
|
1 |
| Have more facilities or social outlets |
|
1 |
| Have more social interaction. |
|
1 |
| Have more staff trained on dementia |
|
1 |
| Have people to look after their needs |
|
1 |
| Haven't a clue |
|
1 |
| Health |
|
1 |
| Health care rights |
|
1 |
| Healthcare regarding dementia |
|
1 |
| Healthcare system |
|
1 |
| Hear their voice not the voices of their social workers |
|
1 |
| Heat and a visitor per day |
|
1 |
| Heating for all free |
|
1 |
| Heating grants improved |
|
1 |
| Heating increase financial support where necessary |
|
1 |
| Heating winter oil too dear |
|
1 |
| Help for elderly new windows for bungalow required |
|
1 |
| Help in winter |
|
1 |
| Help make sure they can heat their homes |
|
1 |
| Help older people to lead fulfilling lives |
|
1 |
| Help older people to work if they want, help them to heat their homes |
|
1 |
| Help provide care at home |
|
1 |
| Help them financially |
|
1 |
| Help them get all they're entitled to |
|
1 |
| Help them get best healthcare |
|
1 |
| Help them more |
|
1 |
| Help them more. |
|
1 |
| Help them with loneliness |
|
1 |
| Help with car insurance and other costs etc |
|
1 |
| Help with care. |
|
1 |
| Help with claiming benefits |
|
1 |
| Help with different things |
|
1 |
| Help with fuel prices and cost of electricity |
|
1 |
| Help with loneliness |
|
1 |
| Help with loneliness and finances |
|
1 |
| Help with social interaction |
|
1 |
| Help with the isolation more care and contact |
|
1 |
| Help with the isolation older people suffer in their homes |
|
1 |
| Help with their isolation |
|
1 |
| Helping them to be treated well |
|
1 |
| Helping with finances, particularly healthcare. |
|
1 |
| Higher pension |
|
1 |
| Home help to have more time per visit |
|
1 |
| Home security fitted free |
|
1 |
| Home visits, lunch club and activities |
|
1 |
| Housing, including sheltered accommodation |
|
1 |
| How to access benefits make it easier |
|
1 |
| I couldn't ask for anything more |
|
1 |
| I do not know |
|
7 |
| I don't know |
|
1 |
| I have no idea |
|
2 |
| I know little or nothing about what the person does. Maybe they need to keep older people better informed about the work he or she does |
|
1 |
| I never heard much about what she does or has done |
|
1 |
| I think I am well catered for |
|
1 |
| I think a wee bit more money and company for them someone to go in and pay a visit |
|
1 |
| I think it probably will be in my case here in the country. more community activity perhaps more day centres and that sort of thing |
|
1 |
| I think sometimes pensioners get a raw deal and are forgotten about, the Commissioner should act as the go-between between the pensioners and Government to preserve their pension rights, welfare benefits etc |
|
1 |
| I think they can help them get transport to go wherever they want to go like a special bus |
|
1 |
| I would like better facilities for social events etc. |
|
1 |
| I'd say better transport resources to get them out |
|
1 |
| I've no idea |
|
1 |
| If any issues arise whereby an older person requires to be represented maybe the Commissioner could represent that person to make sure their interests and welfare are safeguarded. |
|
1 |
| If they are on their own then they should have more time with the home help. |
|
1 |
| Im happy enough |
|
1 |
| Improve access and quality of healthcare |
|
1 |
| Improve care for the elderly both in homes and in their own homes |
|
1 |
| Improve confidence of older people particularly the vulnerable |
|
1 |
| Improve everything |
|
1 |
| Improve finances |
|
1 |
| Improve finances - fuel allowance |
|
1 |
| Improve financial benefits |
|
1 |
| Improve financial situation |
|
1 |
| Improve financial support, increase social care, nursing homes better monitored |
|
1 |
| Improve health care |
|
1 |
| Improve health care for them |
|
1 |
| Improve health care, increase budget |
|
1 |
| Improve health, finances and keep safe from crime |
|
1 |
| Improve healthcare for older people |
|
1 |
| Improve old age pensions |
|
1 |
| Improve pension benefits, increase pension |
|
1 |
| Improve pension rates |
|
1 |
| Improve pensions |
|
3 |
| Improve the health and better home carer service in the future. |
|
1 |
| Improve the health service |
|
1 |
| Improve the quality of life for older people by providing more fold/ residential home care |
|
1 |
| Improve the weekly pension to enable pensioners to have a better standard of life |
|
1 |
| Improve their access to health and social care facilities |
|
1 |
| Improve their benefits especially their pension |
|
1 |
| Improve their benefits so that they can look after themselves |
|
1 |
| Improve their finances |
|
1 |
| Improve their money situation |
|
1 |
| Improve their pensions |
|
1 |
| Improve transport |
|
1 |
| Improve transport in this area is most essential |
|
1 |
| Improve transport, access to shops, etc... |
|
1 |
| Improved care in their home |
|
1 |
| Improved financial income and security. |
|
1 |
| Improved healthcare, for self and family. |
|
1 |
| Improved pensions - keeping up with the cost of living. |
|
1 |
| Improved state services |
|
1 |
| Improvement in health care |
|
1 |
| Improvement in residential care standards |
|
1 |
| Improving standards in nursing and residential homes |
|
1 |
| Improving their quality of life generally |
|
1 |
| Increase benefits and pensions |
|
1 |
| Increase benefits for older people |
|
1 |
| Increase financial help |
|
1 |
| Increase fuel payment to people who need it by keeping the money given to people with lots |
|
1 |
| Increase in the state pension |
|
1 |
| Increase in their living allowance |
|
1 |
| Increase pension |
|
3 |
| Increase pension payments |
|
2 |
| Increase pensions |
|
4 |
| Increase pensions to above the rate of inflation |
|
1 |
| Increase pensions, improve health care, |
|
1 |
| Increase state pension |
|
1 |
| Increase the flat pension so they can live |
|
1 |
| Increase the pension |
|
2 |
| Increase the pension and better run hospitals |
|
1 |
| Increase the state pension |
|
1 |
| Increase the state pension and give them a better standard of living. |
|
1 |
| Increase the state pension to insure security and comfort in their own home |
|
1 |
| Increase the use of the internet |
|
1 |
| Increase their pensions and other benefits |
|
1 |
| Increase their pensions/benefits |
|
1 |
| Increased the pension and make it fair. Based on what the people pay in |
|
1 |
| Increasing pensions and benefits |
|
1 |
| Inform older people about all the benefits automatically |
|
1 |
| Insure good care |
|
1 |
| Insuring that their houses are properly heated and that they have enough food |
|
1 |
| Introduce a realistic pension. |
|
1 |
| Introduce something to go towards reducing the isolation faced by many |
|
1 |
| Isolation and what to do with your time |
|
1 |
| Isolation and loneliness need visits |
|
1 |
| Isolation is a problem and support in their homes with cleaning. |
|
1 |
| Isolation is the biggest problem to resolve. |
|
1 |
| Isolation must be addressed for the elderly in terms of lunch club and activities. Redefine clubs or reinvent not labeled clubs for the elderly i.e the mature generation |
|
1 |
| It seems the fuel for people less well off, heating, is their big problem. They could go further that way, listening to the news |
|
1 |
| It's hard to say but probably an adequate pension |
|
1 |
| Just ensure that the rights of elderly people are protected and that they are not forgotten about |
|
1 |
| Just get them a fair deal regards their standard of living |
|
1 |
| Just more money |
|
1 |
| Just to make sure pensioners have a voice and that they are represented when the Government are making decisions affecting them |
|
1 |
| Keep bus pass and winter fuel allowance |
|
1 |
| Keep close eye on standards in nursing homes |
|
1 |
| Keep older people better informed about what she is doing for them. She needs a higher profile, nobody knows what she does |
|
1 |
| Keep them safe |
|
2 |
| Keep them safe from crime |
|
2 |
| Keep them safe more personal care |
|
1 |
| Keep them warm |
|
2 |
| Keep them warm help with winter fuel costs |
|
1 |
| Keep them warm in winter |
|
1 |
| Keeping warm in winter |
|
1 |
| Lady thinks old people are well cared for |
|
1 |
| Larger pension |
|
1 |
| Larger pensions |
|
1 |
| Less charges for residential care |
|
1 |
| Let herself be known for a start |
|
1 |
| Let people die when they want |
|
1 |
| Let people know about the commissioner! |
|
1 |
| Let people know the commissioner exists! |
|
1 |
| Let their concerns be heard |
|
1 |
| Let them retire on a good pension. And provide support in free transport etc Not able to use internet provide free phone tel no etc |
|
1 |
| Let's see who you are |
|
1 |
| Letting people know what their entitlements are and helping them complete forms. |
|
1 |
| Listen to us |
|
1 |
| Listen to what they want |
|
1 |
| Lobby for an increase in pensions |
|
1 |
| Lobby for harder penalties for those who attack an elderly person or steal from them, including con men |
|
1 |
| Loneliness and exclusion |
|
1 |
| Loneliness curbed |
|
1 |
| Loneliness, isolation, fuel poverty |
|
1 |
| Longer time for home help |
|
1 |
| Look after crime |
|
1 |
| Look after older people better |
|
1 |
| Look after older people better, especially if they have no family |
|
1 |
| Look after the old in the case of crime |
|
1 |
| Look after them when they are ill and provide better care services |
|
1 |
| Look at pensions and help with fuel |
|
1 |
| Look into every estate and see what is available for them |
|
1 |
| Look into health care at home |
|
1 |
| Look into their way of life with a view to making improvements |
|
1 |
| Look into winter payments and more benefits |
|
1 |
| Looking after them as regards to crime |
|
1 |
| Looking into why pensioners are paying tax on our pensions |
|
1 |
| Lot of older people getting broken into and things like that |
|
1 |
| Lower the bands for means testing for benefits such as pension credit |
|
1 |
| Lunch club to socialise |
|
1 |
| Made feel secure in their old age and not to be concerned with security and finance |
|
1 |
| Maintain good healthcare for the elderly |
|
1 |
| Maintain the fuel allowance and bus pass, free prescriptions, parking charges at the hospital, |
|
1 |
| Maintain widely available health care for elderly |
|
1 |
| Maintaining their rights as my parents age |
|
1 |
| Make every effort to keep the elderly in their own homes carried by support in the community |
|
1 |
| Make it easier for them to heat their homes |
|
1 |
| Make it easier to get benefits they are entitled to |
|
1 |
| Make it possible for older people to stay in work |
|
1 |
| Make it simpler for older people to claim benefits. Present system too hard to understand |
|
1 |
| Make it simpler to claim benefits and find out what is due to them |
|
1 |
| Make more people aware of what they are entitled to |
|
1 |
| Make more things available for them such as social activities and finance help |
|
1 |
| Make pensions fairer for people who dont have much |
|
1 |
| Make people aware of who it is of their existence what they do |
|
1 |
| Make people aware that the commissioner exists |
|
1 |
| Make sure all elderly people are warm during the winter months |
|
1 |
| Make sure enough heat and food |
|
1 |
| Make sure everybody is treated the same and no differences because of age |
|
1 |
| Make sure older people have enough money for food heating etc |
|
1 |
| Make sure older people have enough money to see to their basic needs met. There needs to be an increase in the state pension |
|
1 |
| Make sure people looking after the elderly are fit and qualified to look after them with care and dignity |
|
1 |
| Make sure poorer pensioners get what they are entitled to |
|
1 |
| Make sure that all elderly people are warm, have food and someone who can check up on them each day to make sure they are ok |
|
1 |
| Make sure that someone keeps in touch with them all the time |
|
1 |
| Make sure that they are financially supported on what they are living on |
|
1 |
| Make sure that they are kept warm |
|
1 |
| Make sure that they are looked after properly |
|
1 |
| Make sure that they have enough food |
|
1 |
| Make sure the interests of the elderly are fully represented |
|
1 |
| Make sure the right benefits and health care are provided |
|
1 |
| Make sure their pension rises uniformly in line with inflation |
|
1 |
| Make sure they are cared for well in old age |
|
1 |
| Make sure they are financial stable so they don't go cold or hungry |
|
1 |
| Make sure they are receiving benefits |
|
1 |
| Make sure they are treated properly in nursing homes |
|
1 |
| Make sure they are well look after and getting all their entitlements |
|
1 |
| Make sure they can make ends meet |
|
1 |
| Make sure they don't get a raw deal when it comes to welfare and benefits |
|
1 |
| Make sure they don't struggle to pay bills |
|
1 |
| Make sure they get what they're entitled to |
|
1 |
| Make sure they get a fair deal? |
|
1 |
| Make sure they get a good deal as fair as welfare benefits are concerned |
|
1 |
| Make sure they have a voice and are looked after in terms of welfare, benefits etc |
|
1 |
| Make sure they pay minimal tax, are looked after from a welfare standpoint and that they have a standard of living that is reasonable and commensurate with their age |
|
1 |
| Make sure they retain their dignity and good pension |
|
1 |
| Make sure warm in winter |
|
1 |
| Make the benefits system less intimidating. |
|
1 |
| Make their housing better |
|
1 |
| Make their property's safer |
|
1 |
| Make them aware of their entitlements |
|
1 |
| Make them feel more secure in own homes |
|
1 |
| Make them more aware as to what is available to them.Their family's should also be aware. |
|
1 |
| Make them more aware of their benefits and rights |
|
1 |
| Make themselves more publicly known. |
|
1 |
| Making ends meet |
|
1 |
| Making ends meet and cheaper fuel. |
|
1 |
| Making sure that the punishment fits the crime when dealing with people who have commited crime |
|
1 |
| Making sure they are getting the benefits they are entitled |
|
1 |
| Making sure they have enough food and heating and better healthcare |
|
1 |
| Married older people should get same pension as single people |
|
1 |
| Maybe make transport available for people who don't drive or who used to drive |
|
1 |
| Means testing for living standards because some older people have loads and some are skintight but all get given the same |
|
1 |
| Medical appointments to ensure they dont have to wait for 4 weeks for a doctors appointment |
|
1 |
| Money and assess to services |
|
1 |
| Money money |
|
1 |
| Money more money |
|
1 |
| More benefits |
|
1 |
| More Fold places with better trained staff |
|
1 |
| More access to home care services |
|
1 |
| More access to home visits from health professionals and helpers |
|
1 |
| More active outreach within communities toward older people |
|
1 |
| More activites to get out of the house during the day |
|
1 |
| More activities |
|
1 |
| More activities during the day and home visits |
|
1 |
| More activities for older people who are lonely in their homes all alone. From yoga to cooking classes anything to have the mind stretched and provide companionship |
|
1 |
| More aid for heating |
|
1 |
| More attention and help to provide night care for older people with dementia |
|
1 |
| More awareness & better pensions |
|
1 |
| More awareness of what is available to older people |
|
1 |
| More awarness of the commissioner |
|
1 |
| More benefits |
|
4 |
| More benefits for them so they can eat well and stay warm |
|
1 |
| More benefits lower rates tv licence etc at an earlier age |
|
1 |
| More benefits/ increased pension |
|
1 |
| More calls to people living alone to check they are OK. More keypads for entry if people can't answer the door |
|
1 |
| More care and company for them. Free leisure centre facilities |
|
1 |
| More care for really elderly in their own homes |
|
1 |
| More care from crime |
|
1 |
| More care in the community when needed |
|
1 |
| More care in their homes |
|
1 |
| More choice in the medical support they receive. More input into their medical decisions |
|
1 |
| More clubs and events. Groups for them to attend |
|
1 |
| More comfort at winter safe and warm |
|
1 |
| More community activities for people to go to so as they won't be lonley |
|
1 |
| More community centres and social facilities |
|
1 |
| More community events for older people or breakfast clubs |
|
1 |
| More community projects |
|
1 |
| More company during the day with carer visits |
|
1 |
| More company. People to sit with them |
|
1 |
| More contact with the outside world |
|
1 |
| More day activities |
|
1 |
| More efficient health care |
|
1 |
| More employment |
|
1 |
| More facilities in the area like a bowling group or men's groups |
|
1 |
| More financial assistance |
|
2 |
| More financial benefits |
|
1 |
| More financial help |
|
3 |
| More financial help for the eldery |
|
1 |
| More financial help in state pension, and means tested fuel payments |
|
1 |
| More financial help to keep warm in winter and eat well |
|
1 |
| More financial support |
|
1 |
| More financial support and more social activites |
|
1 |
| More financial support for older people who are more vulnerable and living on their own |
|
1 |
| More health care , shorter waiting lists to reduce worry |
|
1 |
| More health services and heat and food |
|
1 |
| More healthcare/visiting for older people especially the lonely |
|
1 |
| More heating in winter |
|
1 |
| More help and to attend more social activities |
|
1 |
| More help in homes of all older men to do washing and cooking etc |
|
1 |
| More help in the community eg my husband has dementia and I get no help |
|
1 |
| More help in the house |
|
1 |
| More help in their homes and for longer periods of time not just 20 mins a day |
|
1 |
| More help in their homes and out to lunch club and activities |
|
1 |
| More help with heating |
|
1 |
| More help with pensions |
|
1 |
| More help with winter heating |
|
1 |
| More help, when needed, in their own homes |
|
1 |
| More home care for older people |
|
1 |
| More home care for people who can't manage on their own |
|
1 |
| More home help and companionship |
|
1 |
| More home help and home visits |
|
1 |
| More home help hours and more police around on the streets |
|
1 |
| More home help support for older people at home who need this service |
|
1 |
| More in the commuity both home and in the community |
|
1 |
| More income |
|
2 |
| More info on benefits |
|
1 |
| More local health facilities |
|
1 |
| More local information closer not having to go as far as Newry |
|
1 |
| More money |
|
15 |
| More money and benefits |
|
1 |
| More money and less waiting times in the hospital |
|
1 |
| More money and more home help |
|
1 |
| More money for heat and food |
|
1 |
| More money for heating |
|
2 |
| More money for older people and provide more company in their homes. |
|
1 |
| More money in pension payment |
|
1 |
| More money in pensions |
|
2 |
| More money in their pensions for the ones who need it |
|
1 |
| More money on the pension |
|
1 |
| More money to have a decent standard of living |
|
1 |
| More money to live on |
|
1 |
| More money. |
|
1 |
| More nursing support, home help and info regarding what benefits they are entitled to |
|
1 |
| More opportunities for computer training |
|
1 |
| More pension |
|
4 |
| More pension money |
|
1 |
| More pension money for those who need it |
|
1 |
| More pension money when people retire especially for those who have worked their whole life |
|
1 |
| More pensions |
|
1 |
| More people to check on older people |
|
1 |
| More places in sheltered living homes like Folds |
|
1 |
| More police to give confidence to older people at home |
|
1 |
| More protection against crime |
|
1 |
| More protection from crime |
|
1 |
| More recreational trips for elderly people in rural areas |
|
1 |
| More relatable activities for older people |
|
1 |
| More rural community transport for essential trips eg to hospital or for shopping etc |
|
1 |
| More safe accommodation with security |
|
1 |
| More security in their homes. Eg if people could have direct access to the emergency services. rather than the usual line they should have a direct line so as emergency services would know they are older |
|
1 |
| More security when they retire in financial terms and that they don't have to work until they 68 |
|
1 |
| More social activities |
|
1 |
| More social activities and company at home |
|
1 |
| More social activities and home support. Gran who is blind she cannot hear but wants to stay at home. Essential she is given support to stay on her own and in her own home. Really government needs to help support as she cannot sustain these expenses long |
|
1 |
| More social activities during the day |
|
1 |
| More social activities to stop older people being lonely |
|
1 |
| More social care for older people |
|
1 |
| More social clubs in area |
|
1 |
| More social clubs keep them mentally active good health and social care |
|
1 |
| More social clubs to ensure older people have regular company |
|
1 |
| More social facilities. |
|
1 |
| More social interaction |
|
1 |
| More social outlets and for isolated people more interaction |
|
1 |
| More social visits by home visitors or carers |
|
1 |
| More suitable housing |
|
1 |
| More support for people who are providing care services in the home not a 15 minute visit twice a day it's not adequate |
|
1 |
| More support generally |
|
1 |
| More support in terms of money and more help visits |
|
1 |
| More support in terms of social activities |
|
1 |
| More support in their homes |
|
1 |
| More support in their own homes |
|
1 |
| More support workers in the community |
|
1 |
| More things happening in the local clubs |
|
1 |
| More time when visited by the home help who are currently too rushed |
|
1 |
| Moving footpaths like in the airport, moving walk ways |
|
1 |
| Much more home help and money to allow older people to live |
|
1 |
| Much more home help for longer periods of time into their homes. Not just to make a sandwich but actually a real meal or dinner |
|
1 |
| Much more money to support older people |
|
1 |
| Much more support in their homes to allow them to continue living at home |
|
1 |
| Name labels for all health professionals so when they bully older people they can be identified |
|
1 |
| Need an adequate amount of finance |
|
1 |
| Never heard of the Commissioner |
|
1 |
| No |
|
1 |
| No bad conditions in any home or hospital |
|
1 |
| No idea |
|
3 |
| No idea what he does. |
|
1 |
| No idea, all those government people do what they want anyway |
|
1 |
| No opinion |
|
5 |
| None |
|
19 |
| Not aware of what she's doing so..... |
|
1 |
| Not sure |
|
34 |
| Not sure what |
|
3 |
| Nothing |
|
6 |
| Nothing springs to mind |
|
2 |
| Obviously give them more money |
|
1 |
| Offer them more money |
|
1 |
| Old people should pay less for their groceries and fuel for their car |
|
1 |
| Older people living on their own |
|
1 |
| Older people need help with forms etc |
|
1 |
| Older people should not be made to work if not well enough or on benefits or made to go to a job centre |
|
1 |
| Older people should not be taxed on their pension |
|
1 |
| Older peoples health should be checked more often |
|
1 |
| Older who have state pension only should be given extra help financially. There should be more protection for older people with regard to abuse |
|
1 |
| Open more residential care homes |
|
1 |
| Opportunity to socialise at lunch clubs and get quick access to doctors and health care |
|
1 |
| Pay more attention to the old who have never worked |
|
1 |
| Pension contributions need imprivement |
|
1 |
| Pension increase reduced electric and gas prices |
|
1 |
| Pension increased |
|
1 |
| Pension increased so people can keep warm and well |
|
1 |
| Pensioners largely are forgotten about so would like the Commissioner to fight for the welfare rights of the elderly. |
|
1 |
| Pensions improved. Police patrols doubled. Heating improved in their homes. |
|
1 |
| People should be assessed about their finances so it is fair |
|
1 |
| Plenty of company |
|
1 |
| Plenty of social activities |
|
1 |
| Plenty of support in their homes to keep them out of old peoples homes |
|
1 |
| Positive ageing week in Newry very good and all over Northern Ireland. Provide more information about what's on I missed the tea dance in city hall |
|
1 |
| Possibility of work at any age. Good health care |
|
1 |
| Preparation financially for older people to ensure plenty of money and not needing pensions |
|
1 |
| Prevention of loneliness. Something social |
|
1 |
| Prioritise health treatments |
|
1 |
| Probably better pension |
|
1 |
| Probably give them more pension. If you take away financial stress it means a lot |
|
1 |
| Promote community centres to alleviate loneliness. |
|
1 |
| Promote good health care for elderly |
|
1 |
| Promote health, well-being and exercise amongst the elderly to keep them active and alert, which would prevent the elderly feeling isolated and alone the way they do |
|
1 |
| Promote mental health to enable older people to live as they wish |
|
1 |
| Promote research into dementia |
|
1 |
| Promote right to die |
|
1 |
| Promote their rights, like an MP but for older people specifically |
|
1 |
| Proper care |
|
1 |
| Proper representation of rights and services |
|
1 |
| Proper state pension |
|
1 |
| Protect their rights with regards welfare, housing and benefits |
|
1 |
| Protection and support for older people who live alone |
|
1 |
| Protection from crime |
|
1 |
| Protection of pension payments into funds by private individual |
|
1 |
| Provide a good pension |
|
1 |
| Provide a guardian/ support worker to insure that older people can access the full range of support services available to them |
|
1 |
| Provide accessible information to their entitlements |
|
1 |
| Provide better community standards. Make Folds etc more accessible. |
|
1 |
| Provide better transport services to health centres etc. access to Internet and training |
|
1 |
| Provide entertainment for older people |
|
1 |
| Provide financial advice to help older people make ends meet. |
|
1 |
| Provide free heat for elderly people |
|
1 |
| Provide good healthcare |
|
1 |
| Provide heat |
|
1 |
| Provide info as to what's available for them... Benefits etc |
|
1 |
| Provide information on services and benefits available. |
|
1 |
| Provide more finances for heating |
|
1 |
| Provide more help and support |
|
1 |
| Provide more information on what benefits are available. |
|
1 |
| Provide more money |
|
1 |
| Provide more opportunities/equal opportunities |
|
1 |
| Provide more social activities for older people |
|
1 |
| Provide older people with good pensions by encouraging provision early in their respective working life |
|
1 |
| Provide opportunities for use of internet training |
|
1 |
| Provide security |
|
1 |
| Provide the care that's needed. |
|
1 |
| Providing activities for them - training in IT etc |
|
1 |
| Providing lower heating and enough food in the winter. Make sure that older people are not lonely. |
|
1 |
| Publicise exactly what old peoples entitlements are and how they should go about getting them - marketed in such a way that old people are guaranteed to find out |
|
1 |
| Put their benefits up |
|
1 |
| Put their pension on a par with other European countries eg France or Germany |
|
1 |
| Radically improved pension. |
|
1 |
| Raise old age pension |
|
1 |
| Raise pensions |
|
1 |
| Raise the basic pension |
|
1 |
| Raise the state pension |
|
1 |
| Reassess their money |
|
1 |
| Reduce loneliness and isolation |
|
1 |
| Reduce the waiting time for getting into hospital |
|
1 |
| Reduce waiting times for hip and knee replacements |
|
1 |
| Reduced gas prices |
|
1 |
| Reduced heating bills electricity |
|
1 |
| Regular home visits for the elderly |
|
1 |
| Regular visits to make sure they are ok |
|
1 |
| Represent their interests to Goverment so that their welfare and pension rights are upheld |
|
1 |
| Residential care |
|
1 |
| Retirement villages |
|
1 |
| Revamp the entire system to make the whole system more assessable for the aging population |
|
1 |
| Reverse all the cutbacks in community services |
|
1 |
| Review pension credit refusals |
|
1 |
| Rise in pension and reduction in retirement age |
|
1 |
| Rise in pensions |
|
1 |
| Safeguard from local crime |
|
1 |
| Safety in homes community watch older people at the weekend |
|
1 |
| Security in their homes and neighbourhoods |
|
1 |
| Security in their own homes and a warden living here at the week end in the fold |
|
1 |
| See that they're treated much better in nursing homes |
|
1 |
| See to it that they all know what they are entitled to and how they can get it |
|
1 |
| Set up a call centre which could ring all elderly twice a year to see if they are having any problems |
|
1 |
| Set up a specific advice line |
|
1 |
| Set up more community activities and social aspects |
|
1 |
| Shopping and befriending service |
|
1 |
| Shorten waiting times for doctor and hospital appts |
|
1 |
| Shorter waiting lists in hospital |
|
1 |
| Should be more high prolife and be seen to be getting a better deal for older people |
|
1 |
| Should campaign for rises in pension and give families more support for looking after elderly relatives |
|
1 |
| Simply to protect the intrinsic rights of the elderly to make sure they don't get a raw deal |
|
1 |
| Social actives and transport to church |
|
1 |
| Social activities |
|
1 |
| Social care as and when they need it |
|
1 |
| Social club outings essential for older people |
|
1 |
| Social clubs and activities |
|
1 |
| Social networking for older people |
|
1 |
| Socialising more with people |
|
1 |
| Some sort of centres people could go to during the day for a meal and companionship |
|
1 |
| Some way to make sure older people are regularly checked on by someone who would actually help instead of just sending other people round to find out more things |
|
1 |
| Someone to chat to at least once a month |
|
1 |
| Someone to visit the lonely |
|
1 |
| Something could be done for lonely or isolated people |
|
1 |
| Something to bring them together where they'd be warm and could have company |
|
1 |
| Something to help make a difference to society |
|
1 |
| Something to keep them from being completely on their own |
|
1 |
| Sort out the health care |
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| Speed up health issues |
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| Spot the sign of age earlier and give them the support they need earlier |
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| Stand up for their rights |
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| Stiffer penalties to deter criminals from targeting them |
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| Suitable access for housing |
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| Suitable accommodation and good heating system like not economy 7, gas is so much cheaper |
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| Support in terms of clubs and day centre for oaps |
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| Support and company |
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| Support and help in their homes |
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| Support for eldery alone in their house company |
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| Support in terms of money and people visiting |
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| Support in terms of regular visitors and things to do rather than get old in isolation |
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| Support to ensure their human rights are upheld |
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| Support to keep elderly people in their own home |
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| Support with finances |
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| Tackle isolation |
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| Tackle loneliness |
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| Tackle loneliness and isolation |
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| Teach young people manners simple manners basic simple manners seat on a bus ... Holding open doors basic human rights |
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| That they don't have to use all their own personal money when they go into a nursing home |
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| That they feel financially secure |
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| The benefits system needs to be simplified to make it easier for older people to understand and be able to know what they are entitled to |
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| The elderly are in general bored, fed up and isolated. It would be helpful if the commissioner could concentrate efforts on getting pensioners involved in social activity which could help their state of mind and physical health. |
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| The health service looks after older people |
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| The same benefits as the pensioners in Germany |
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| Their living conditions and making sure they have heat |
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| Their main role should be in my opinion to make sure older people get a fair deal and to make sure they are not discriminated against in any way |
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| Their rights |
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| They be be given preference in hospital waiting lists |
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| They need occupied in activities and purpose for their lives. Use their talent to help others |
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| They should go out and talk to a few, they'd learn best by doing that |
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| Those government people all think they already know better |
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| To act as the go-between between Pensioners and Government to make sure the rights of elderly people are upheld |
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| To be treated fairly when it comes to medical treatments |
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| To campaign for Pensioner Rights with regard to health, welfare and benefits |
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| To campaign for pensioners to have increased pension payments |
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| To concentrate on widows and widowers because when their partner dies they lose half the household income and still pay the same bills |
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| To consider the cost of living and make sure it is adequate in reflection to the cost of living |
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| To do all that is possible to relieve the monotony and boredom associated with old age |
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| To do away with loneliness so people would have social outlets |
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| To ensure older people have medical tests and results as quickly as younger people |
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| To ensure pensioners get a pension that is more in line with the cost of living, what pensioners get now by way of a pension is very poor and how anybody can live on 113 quid a week is beyond me especially if that is their only source of income |
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| To ensure that the elderly have primary access to health and welfare provisions |
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| To ensure the elderly get the medical help they require irrespective of their means |
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| To get a lift to church each week |
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| To get pensioners a better deal with regards to their pension. 113 quid a week is pitiful, it should be double that and even then it would be woefully inadequate. |
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| To get them more money |
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| To give pensioners better pension rights |
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| To help the elderly engage with society by arranging community initiatives, pastimes etc to relieve the boredom and monotony of everyday life |
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| To help them financially |
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| To help them stay in employment if they are able |
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| To improve social care to allow people who are older to be cared for at home |
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| To let them avail of more heat in the winter time or provide them of means of provinding heat |
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| To listen to them |
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| To live rent free |
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| To look at their healthcare options, especially if they are terminally ill or have illness |
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| To make everywhere more older friendly |
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| To make more practical support available for them |
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| To make sure ALL Pensioners have housing and warmth. It should be a fundamental right at that age. |
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| To make sure Pensioners have welfare rights, including adequate heating during winter months. |
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| To make sure all elderly people are adequately housed with appropriate welfare provision |
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| To make sure all elderly people have enough heat during the winter months to make sure they don't get hypothermia |
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| To make sure all pensioners are warm during winter |
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| To make sure older people are treated equally with the rest of the population and if they are not The Commissioner should fight their corner. |
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| To make sure people get the medical treatment they require irrespective of cost |
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| To make sure that ALL Pensioners have heat during winter months |
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| To make sure that elderly people are looked after in terms of basic needs irrespective of their basic income. |
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| To make sure that the views of the elderly are taken into account in line with the general population |
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| To make sure that they are lonely |
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| To make sure the elderly get priority health treatment |
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| To make sure the elderly have social activities to keep their minds active as many elderly people are left to live alone and die of boredom |
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| To make sure their human rights are protected in terms of welfare, benefits etc |
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| To make sure their rights are protected |
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| To make sure their rights are protected and that they are properly represented in terms of welfare, benefits etc |
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| To preserve pension rights of pensioners |
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| To promote independence and get them out of the house |
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| To provide a service where someone could call with elderly people every day, from 80 yrs old onward or if in poor health from 75yrs |
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| To provide benefits for putting them into a home use benefits rather than using up life savings... |
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| To provide more social interaction for people who are lonely, provide a community service for such people |
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| To push for higher pension payments for pensioners as the current amount is woefully inadequate |
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| To put the case forward to Government to get Pensions increased to a more appropriate level |
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| To reduce the time that older people have to wait for operations like hip replacement |
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| To represent their interests as regards food, housing etc |
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| To safeguard the welfare interests of pensioners to ensure they have an acceptable standard of living |
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| Too young to know |
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| Transport and call in centres. |
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| Transport in rural areas |
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| Transport, particularly in rural areas. |
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| Treat them better |
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| Treat them with equality the same as everyone else |
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| Try and get people involved within their communities, get them out and socialising with others |
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| Try and keep the cost of living down for older people |
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| Try and set up more activities for them especially in rural areas |
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| Try for something they could attend for company and transport provided were possible |
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| Try to get them belonging to them, more money to look after their elderly relatives at home |
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| Try to identify those pensioners in greatest need and help point them towards how to get everything they are entitled to |
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| Try to make sure all older people get what they are entitled to |
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| Unsure. |
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| Valued for life generally here in Northern Ireland |
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| Vistors to deal with feeling lonely |
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| Vulnerability regards payment |
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| We are fine |
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| Welfare and rights support eg fuel and support groups where they dont have family support |
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| Whatever they can to see they don't get forgotten - isolated, away from family, and unable to care for themselves. Also that nursing homes are run well enough that all residents get proper care |
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| When [name]'s dad was in the hospital they didn't treat him like a human being they spoke down to him... The cleaners and tea ladies were the nicest to him.. |
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| Wouldn't know |
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| You hear about elderly people dying of hypothermia. The Commissioner should ensure that steps are put in place to ensure that the Elderly have adequate heating regardless of income |
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| You hear stories about old people freezing to death in their own homes in poverty unable to pay for heating costs. The Commissioner should campaign to ensure ALL pensioners have adequate welfare provision including food, heating and basic needs. |
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| dont know |
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| treat them better in care homes |
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