The Developmental Welfare State

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The Developmental Welfare State

• Older people workshop

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Welfare State and Older People

• Income
• Ensuring adequate and sustainable incomes in
  retirement
• Non contributory and Insurance based
• Pensions bulwark from being at risk of poverty
• Current generation low money income levels

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Key Factors for Adequate Pensions

• Working age productive and employment steady
• Retirement age reflecting health, life
  expectancy, interest and capacity to work longer
• Pension schemes reward those who defer with
  minimal incentives for early withdrawal
• Income funded from current taxes and income
  funded from invested savings respected and
  enhanced

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Welfare State and Older People

• Services
• Older peoples greater utilisation rates
• Housing and health service improvements
• Diversity of residential accommodation
• National Plan for Older People

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Paradigm governing Service Delivery

• Service defined by agency
• Crisis oriented
• Annual budget
• Provides categorical services
• Funds isolated projects
• One size fits all

• Jointly defined by centre agency user
• Balance between prevention intervention
• Multi-annual budgeting
• Integrated services
• Levers local innovations into improvements in
  mainstream services
• Assumption of need for diversity

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Welfare State and Older People

• Activist
• NGOs key providers for state system
• Plan and implement projects that experiment with
  new approaches and procedures
• Public-voluntary and public-private partnerships

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Paradigm governing Activist Measures

• Homogenous subgroups
• Compensating for individuals lacks
• Clients meet programme criteria
• Ownership of part of problem
• NGOs primarily voices or running pilots

• Heterogeneous groups
• Realising rights
• Clients dictate programme specifications
• Ownership of whole problem
• NGOs also integral to service delivery

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What needs to be done?

• Identify three main problems that need to be
  solved for older people
• Identify two priority policies, programmes or
  reforms that should be first steps in that
  direction