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It is essential that we find ways of ensuring that older people have the best possible quality of life. We are working in a range of ways to support older people; I will mention just a few of those.
Training takes up a massive amount of the work day or night of an operational firefighter. At two hours a week at best, that is not the case for a retained firefighter.
That fact has, at least, been recognised, which is a first step towards exploring how those difficulties can best be mitigated.A place of refuge is just a part of what is needed.