Improving respect for older people
"I will improve respect for older people by encouraging organisations to recruit older people as volunteers, including for the Olympics."
Mayor Boris Johnson and his team are working across all policy areas to improve respect for older Londoners. The GLA now encourages older people to volunteer (link). As part of a drive to improve respect for older people, through Team London, Boris’s £4m volunteering programme, young people will teach older people IT (link). Additionally, to help vulnerable and elderly Londoners, eighty ‘Contact the Elderly’ groups have been established across capital supported by 1,200 volunteers (link).