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driving, is a vital way for older people to continue to be connected, to work, to access local services and to participate fully in their communities. Background Responsibility for transport crosses ... can have a profound impact on the quality of life, health and wellbeing of those in later life – for example, 1.45 million people aged 65+ in England find it difficult to travel to hospital and 630,000
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supporting services to become “Age Friendly”. The importance of bank branches Age UK is calling for all banks and building societies to work harder to respond to the needs of their older customers and ... people aged 75+ do not regularly use the internet. Many older people also have a strong preference for in-branch banking, with face-to-face services allowing the chance to talk to people – an important
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community groups 96% of participants would like to attend more Gwanwyn events 92% of participants who engaged in artistic expression reported benefit 89% reported benefit to their well-being as a result ... spring in Welsh, celebrates older age as a time of opportunity for renewal, growth and creativity. The festival offers opportunities for greater participation by older people in the arts, be it visual
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pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse... by someone who is or has been an intimate partner or family member regardless of gender or sexuality” It includes
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complex skills” “…allows us to enter an area [geographical] we’ve not been not been delivering in for a while.” “It’s [model] been an opportunity to promote ourselves. Take something that was small scale ... 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 .” “I was concerned it was going to be them [Age UK/YN] just
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the proposed abolition of the Commission for Rural Communities 16 January 2012 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes ... purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. Name: Gemma Bradshaw Email: gemma.bradshaw@ageuk.org.uk Age UK 1-6 Tavistock Square London
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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 and practice. ... protect all consumers with the full retirement risk warnings. If it does allow a less intensive regime for small pots, we think a threshold of £10,000 is too high. As decumulation product decisions are no
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and about as consumers, to volunteer, to work and as care givers. We will need to ensure that those who are less mobile or not online are not left behind. There is a growing recognition that too many of ... and unlock the potential of our ageing population. In a significantly challenging financial context for local government, service providers and the communities they serve, there is a real need to work together
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strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. The Golden Thread Advocacy Programme (GTAP) has been funded by Welsh Government for three years to ... draft statutory guidance and their implications for advocacy services for older people. We would not wish to see them extended to cover advocacy services for adults as they currently stand. Whilst there
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the funding for the programme and we will officially be closing GTAP, as it has affectionately become known, on the 31st March 2020. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported ... supported our work, who have opened up to the ideas and expertise within the GTAP team, who have given us time in their busy day to work with us on the development of an enormous amount of publications, resources
