Older Scots top fears are loneliness and care homes but it doesn’t have to be that way

Sometimes, in policy work, its a little tiring to have to constantly prove and reprove empirically what everyone already knows to be the case but in the name of evidence-based policy we keep on going. That's why, for me anyway, the results of a recent WRVS survey on what Scottish older people wanted out of support services, now and in the future, held few surprises. The good thing is that its more proof of what they do want that can be used to back up our efforts to make sure they can get it. Oh, and having it covered on BBC Radio Scotland and in the Scottish Daily Express and in the Herald, Scotland's primo left-of-centre broadsheet, was pretty gratifying too! You can read a short summary and analysis here and the news story here.