Learning for Living: Helping to prevent social exlusion among older people

From Help the Aged (UK), this document makes the case that unless far-sighted action is taken now to ensure that people have the opportunities and resources to accumulate further skills and participate in learning as they grow older, and throughout old age, there is a danger that the current inequalities within our society will multiply under the pressure of an ageing population. Learning for learning’s sake and the acquisition of new skills are not necessarily different things but there needs to be an awareness of the types of skills – such as financial literacy, ICT literacy, health literacy and citizenship literacy – older people need to prevent them drifting into isolation and exclusion. This document addresses solutions to these issues.

http://policy.helptheaged.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/781C82C1-B30A-4975-A1A9-BA15048944FD/5554/learningforliving.pdf