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Consultation Response Age UK’s response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s examination of the Draft Pensions Bill in relation to the single-tier State Pension Ref: 0513 February 2013 ... lifetime earnings due to low pay and caring responsibilities. Reducing pensioner poverty should also be an objective. The level of the single-tier pension needs to be high enough to provide an adequate
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care services ....................................................... 36 3.2 Future funding 2016/17 to 2020/21 ........................................................................... 40 3.3 Healthcare ... ..................... 58 3 Foreword Welcome to this year’s Health and Care of Older People in England briefing from Age UK. The report aims to shine a light on how the system of health and care
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Duty of Quality Welsh Government January 2023 Question 1 Is the Guidance clear on what we are trying to achieve with NHS bodies through the introduction of the Duty of Quality? - Yes The guidance is clear ... be able to expect a good quality of service. This involves providing care and treatment quickly when it is needed and doing so in a way which retains the dignity of older people and allows them to feel respected
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1 Summary In this short paper, Age UK sets out ten questions to prompt and encourage discussion with the local public sector on the key issues affecting services for people in later life within ... vulnerable and ensuring fair treatment • Shaping a changing provider market • Integrating the approach to health and wellbeing • Changing attitudes and enabling contributions • Creating age-friendly communities
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and Sustainable Development, aiming to promote human rights of older persons. It highlights that older people continue to suffer from negative stereotypes that lead to discrimination, isolation and exclusion ... Ministers to consider a legally binding instrument. The report was adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 30 May 2017 and the resolution called on member states to: ensure
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response, home-based intermediate care, bed-based intermediate care and reablement. These collectively aim to help people: Safely return home from hospital. Effectively recover after their stay. Regain ... or nursing care. The finished guideline is due to be published in October 2017 and as part of the development process, stakeholders have been invited to comment on the draft (available online here). Age
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1 Consultation response to Housing Standards Review – Technical Consultation Ref 2414 Date: October 2014 Name: Joe Oldman Email: joe.oldman@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved. Third parties ... proposals to establish new optional standards for accessible housing, in addition to the core requirements of Part M of the Building Regulations. Age UK provided a detailed policy response to the consultation
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This consultation by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aims to improve certainty for businesses who may wish to end an employment relationship and also seeks views on capping the payout on ... claims. It suggests giving greater legal protection to ‘settlement agreements’, whereby an employer and employee could negotiate a severance package to terminate the employment contract, for example a pay-off
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CONTENTS Foreword…..page 2 Executive summary…..page 3 Chapter One – Why will the NHS need to change?.....page 7 Chapter Two – What will the future look like? A new relationship with patients ... models….page 20 - How we will support local co-design and implementation…..page 26 Chapter Four – How can we get there?.....page 29 - We will back diverse solutions and local leadership…..page 29 - We will
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This is Age Cymru’s second annual report on delays in access to social care in Wales for people aged 55 and over. Last year our dementia advocacy project, HOPE (Helping others participate and engage) ... had been completed. A year on we wanted to know if the changes local authorities told us about last year were making improvements to older people’s access to social care. Our research found a mixed
