Age should be no barrier to living well. Living longer presents real opportunities to create vibrant and resilient communities where your life experience and skills are valued and you are able to contribute and participate. Many older people stepped-up to volunteer with the pandemic response. This contribution should be properly recognised and harnessed for the future benefit of our communities as we recover together.
The combined impact of ten years of cuts to care and the pandemic has been particularly severe for older people. Harsh cuts rendered the care sector fragmented and ill-prepared for the pandemic. The consequences have been devastating, with too many lives lost. We commit to better protecting care services and remedying these failures. Great effort is needed to tackle inequality in all its forms. From digital exclusion to the unfair treatment of WASPI women there are many injustices that need our attention.