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ALONE welcome increased rate of pay for home support workers but raise concern at cut to home support hours to be delivered this year.

ALONE, the organisation that supports older people to age at home, has welcomed the increased rate of pay for home support workers but says older people should not see their care hours cut.

ALONE calls for pension increases and urgent investment in services in their Pre-Budget Submission

There are ‘One Million and Counting’ older people in Ireland. ALONE…

ALONE calls on Government to live up to commitment to benchmark the State Pension

At current levels the Government would need to increase the pension…

A quarter of older renters expect to remain in the private rental sector for life

A new research report by the national housing charity Threshold…

Number of older people aged 70+ on the social housing waiting list crosses 2,000 for the first time

More than 1 in 4 on social housing waiting list aged 50+ …

ALONE calls for long-awaited national strategy to combat loneliness in light of ‘Hello Again World’ campaign

The charity has noted that loneliness is a complex national issue…

Alarming increase in poverty rates for older people, say ALONE

New CSO-SILC data released this week shows that older people…