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empowering care home staff to improve the range and quality of creative provision in their care home, raising public awareness of the benefits of creativity in care homes, building capacity by sharing learning ... workshops free of charge throughout Wales until August 2021. If you’re a care home manager, an activities coordinator, or a member of staff from a care home, and would like to apply to be a part of cARTrefu
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experiences for you of the Covid-19 pandemic in the lastthreemonths?(Selectallthatapply) Help from family / friends Helpfrom localcommunity volunteers/ localCouncil Improved quality of life More time ... on emotional health Impact on physical health Accessing food Accessing prescriptions Costof living Exercising individual rights Transport Scams Access tocash Abuse Other, please state: Please
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not to be as bad as I thought. Enjoyable!” 04 June 2013 Technology Together Pilot Evaluation 2 Aim of pilot: Test YouthNet and Age UK collaboration effort Stress test systems, processes and infrastructure ... everything…which is really nice.” “Because they’ve [young people] been through YouthNet and done their bit of the training…they’ve already been primed for it. I just put the finesse on that for our organisation
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Parliamentary briefing How you can change the lives of lonely older people. Most of us have felt miserably and lonely at some point in our lives. For many, life moves on and the feelings pass. But for ... to be a member of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness. During her time as an MP, Jo Cox was dedicated to combating loneliness in the UK. Jo formed an independent, cross-party Commission of MPs and charities
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reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy ... was included in the Queen’s Speech following the election. The merger of these Ombudsman schemes was the main recommendation of the Gordon report, commissioned by the Minister for Government Policy in
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Services After many years of campaigning by Age UK, its predecessor organisations and many of our partners, a ban on age discrimination in services (including the provision of goods and facilities), comes ... October 2012. From this date it will be unlawful for service providers to discriminate on the basis of age unless the practice is covered by an exception from the ban, constitutes positive action designed
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1 As chair of Age UK and the Malnutrition Task Force I’m delighted to have been asked to write the foreword of this book. We all seem to find it difficult to have conversations about dying and death. ... It’s an intergenerational thing. We know this because of our social research, which gave us some surprising insights – it seems that we can all talk to our peers but not to our families. This book is
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practice guide for recruiters An ageing population, the end of forced retirement and a rising State Pension age, mean there is a growing number of over 50s in the jobs market. Using this talent pool will ... workforce, Department for Work and Pensions (2013) www.gov.uk DWP Employer Toolkit: Guidance for Managers of Older Workers, Age Action Alliance www.ageactionalliance.org Age UK: www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-news
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reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy ... largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network comprises of around 165 local Age UKs reaching most of England. Each year we provide Information and Advice to
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Experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales who look after, or give any unpaid help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long-term physical or mental ill-health or ... look after or give any unpaid help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of longterm physical or mental ill-health or disability, or issues related to growingolder?Yes NoIf
