Simplification for Better Compliance in Reporting
This release focuses on addressing the complexity in the COUNTER Code of Practice to enhance compliance for publishers and content providers. It aims to balance evolving needs with reducing intricacies, ensuring clarity and consistency in reports and metrics.
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1 TOM BERNEY CHAIRPERSON (FORMER) Scottish Older People s Assembly SOPA & University of the Third Age - Scotland U3A
1. Some background about SOPA 2. Information about U3A 3. Loneliness
SOPA Planning Group Alzheimer Scotland Age Scotland Borders Older People's Services Forum City for All Ages Advisory Group Edinburgh Dumfries & Galloway Seniors Forum Generations Working Together Grey Matters, Helensburgh, Oban Highland Senior Citizens Network Human Development Scotland Interfaith Association LGBT Age Make It Happen Forum Falkirk National Federation of Occupational Pensioners National Pensioners Convention Scotland Older People's Reference Group Stirling Orkney Voices Renfrewshire Seniors Forum Seniors Together South Lanarkshire South Kintyre Seniors Forum Trust Housing Association (Equality Scotland) U3A University of Strathclyde, Learning in Later Life Students' Association West Lothian Senior People's Forum Faith in Older People
University of the Third Age 4 1,300 U3As 424,000 Members All run by Older people
Stereotyping Every Old Person is Different
Loneliness & Isolation 6 UK pop 65.6 m 18% over 65 3.7 m live on their own (mostly women) 1.2m have no adult children . 2m by 2020 10% feel lonely most of the time 41% feel cut off from modern life 12% feel cut off altogether Loneliness equivalent to 15 cigarettes a day Acute loneliness twice as likely to get Alzheimers
7 Need for joined up Strategy Community Housing Transport Technology Inequality
Example U3A Activity Groups Play Reading Pub Lunch and Discussion Reading for Pleasure Scrabble Short Flat Walks Spanish (2) Table Tennis Theatre Visits Town and Country Visits Travelogue Walking Group (Longer) Gentle Yoga Art Painting Computing Cryptic Crosswords Chess Dancing Family History (2) French Golf German History Horticulture Italian for Beginners Mahjong Photography
11 U3A run by older people for older people Using only their own talents and experience Empowers older people
14 Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
