Local #AWOC groups & many community orgs support older people #AgeingWithoutChildren as much of health and social care assumes adult children to support their parents whom are often not there for whatever reason (biological, estrangement, geographic distance) #MoreThanYouThink

Great to see this British Geriatrics Society language guide saying don’t make unfounded assumptions that older people “have children/families ready and willing to care/advocate for them”

AWOC is celebrating 10 years of campaigning and activities to raise awareness of the growing number of #olderpeople #ageing without the informal health and care support that so many families provide. Plenty more work still to do!

Big thanks to BBC Radio 5 and Stephen Nolan for inviting me to join their show about male childlessness. Pleased with the way it went and there was even time for me to mention my book. This is the link and my bit comes in at 42 minutes, 12 seconds!
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BBC Radio 5 Live Thanks for letting me talk about #BroodyMen with #StephenNolan tonight. My book details the impact of #Men & #MaleChildlessness #CircumstantialChildlessness inc why men don't talk, the impact of not collecting men's fertility data #CountMenToo bit.ly/3aa3TfO

To all the AWOC groups who have done such brilliant work raising awareness and supporting each other locally and to National supporters like National Care Forum who commissioned the AWOC toolkit nationalcareforum.org.uk/projects/agein…

Huge thanks to all those who have supported Ageing Without Children over the years including Mervyn Eastman FRSA Dr Robin Hadley 💙💚 Jody Day (Gateway Women) who were there at the beginning Jason Bergen Jenny Collieson who have been with me for so many years now on the journey & Paul Goulden current AWOC chair 1/

10 years ago I wrote this blog published by The Guardian. theguardian.com/social-care-ne… We are at least now talking about it and I’m so proud of what Ageing Without Children has achieved but still lots more to do!

So important for #AWOCs - who may not have a health attorney or someone else to convey their wishes at end of life. But we do need to feel confident that it will be found and used! Compassion in Dying

Big thanks to Hythe Open Door project for letting us use their window for the next two weeks for our display about AWOC. #raisingawareness Ageing Without Children

Loved this episode & was chatting about it to the husband today plotting what we are going to spend our £1800/wk on ! #whenigetold

My job over the last 40 years has been writing strategies. Depressingly none of them have worked. Not a single one 😐 What has worked are the compelling stories about a place, a partnership & the people. We can waste so much time on pointless documents that people can’t remember.

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Carers UK encourages unpaid carers to share their experiences anonymously to support a dossier of evidence to continue the campaign and raise with Government. surveymonkey.com/r/CAoverpayment

It is about time this abhorrent situation is hitting the headlines. I would encourage any #unpaidcarers who have been on the receiving end of this punitive practice by DWP re Carers Allowance to add their voice to the survey. Carers Leeds fully supports this campaign

My weekly blog - The devaluing of care: the stress of caring. #socialcare #StressAwarenessMonth #burnout #care #stress #wellbeing . scottishcare.org/the-devaluing-…

Particularly if they are #AWOC and there is no family member or friend to speak for them? How do you FIND their #advancestatement (if any)? Or seek out information about them if they can’t speak for themselves? And are THEY involved if they can? #askingforafriend

Judd Skelton Paul Vittles Warren Heppolette Eve Holt CEO @ Salford CVS Adele Owen QPM Manisha Kumar Manchester Samaritans NHS Greater Manchester Healthwatch Salford bit.ly/3zDxpYM Ageing Without Children Blog: People ageing without children or family: out of sight, out of mind – The Age Action Alliance

How often are you asked how your children are, or a challenging question that means you have to reveal something of yourself that is very private? linktr.ee/fullstopcic
#childless ness #childless #loneliness

Including a disproportionate number of men #AgeingWithoutChildren for whom less is known about as data is not recorded but we know with fewer adult children to support or advocate for them means greater risk in later life. #NotCountedDontCount #AWOC #MoreThanYouThink