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communications. We observe that there is a significant conceptual gap between the way the industry talks about financial products and the way the general public perceives them. When a member of the public puts ... new customers it should make this clear to customers in language customers themselves use to talk about their banking. We agree strongly with your proposal in paragraph 9.14 that low interest accounts
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grounds of age when being turned down for a job.ii Across England and Wales this could equate to about 750,000 people.iii However, it is much more common for the individual to leave their job than to pursue ... attitudes, the BIS 2010 Small Business Survey shows the following revealing statistics about the scale of the concern about business regulation: Regulations were considered to be the main obstacle to growth
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inequalities across Wales in access to bereavement support and help to address the stigma of talking about dying and end of life care. Access to bereavement services is inconsistent across Wales and this ... ‘conform’ to stereotypical responses. Whilst women are more likely to talk to friends and family about their grief, this is often not the case for men. Men may internalize their grief, which may lead to
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expect that medical decisions are based on their overall health and clinical needs, not on assumptions about their age. Our first report, Access all ages, showed that there is a marked decline in rates of elective ... needs. I urge colleagues across the medical professions to reflect honestly on their decisions and about whether decisions to treat are based solely on clinical need or whether they have been influenced
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reader technology to support his continued use of ICT, which was recommended by a consultant he heard about at a peer support group. He says: “These technologies have given me an enormous amount of communicative ... working until he was nearly 60 and, beyond that, to remain active in the voluntary sector. Thinking about his experience of sight loss, he says: “There are three things that I believe have helped me: • Life
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discrimination, ageism is based on inaccurate stereotypes, and often in the case of older people, assumptions about a person’s ability and competence due to their age. An effect of ageism is that older people frequently ... Rights Commission. EHRC monitoring of the PSED in Wales 2014. http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/devolved-authorities/commission-wales/public-sectorequality-duty-wales-2014/ehrc-monitoring-psed-wales-2014
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assessment under the Act, and carers should be encouraged to take up this opportunity. Until people know about their rights they won’t be able to exercise them. Age discrimination in employment Unjustified age ... of Disability), we will create better policy and better services for everyone. We have concerns about the commissioning of services for ‘all adults’ that potentially fail to recognise the needs of older
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car compared to 26% of all households,8 and many older people rely on bus services to get out and about.9 Community transport schemes provide an essential lifeline for many older people, especially in rural ... services and facilities, is a lifeline for many older people. If an older person cannot get out and about locally they are at risk of poor health, less social contact with others and a reduced quality of
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that competition alone cannot be relied upon to drive value for money in the DC pensions market. About Age UK Age UK is a charity and a social enterprise driven by the needs and aspirations of people ... focus is, quite rightly, on qualifying schemes used for automatic enrolment we are equally concerned about those consumers in existing pension plans. As the OFT study highlights, there are around £30 billion
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later life (www.ageuk.org.uk/promisingapproaches-report). This report brought together what was known about support that appeared to work to help alleviate loneliness. A number of services were examined in ... 11 of 81 July 2017 This paper is designed to accompany this report and provide more information about the quantitative data that was collected to evaluate the pilot programme. This paper also presents
