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the prevalence of loneliness among people aged 65 or over across small geographical units in England. It uses data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) survey to obtain predictors of loneliness ... loneliness among older people across small areas in a country considering that most interventions to tackle it by public and charity sector organisations and community groups are localised (Findlay, 2003; Cattan
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to the members of Age UK 59 Age UK 87 Professional advisers 88 Corporate governance 53 Age UK and its partners 55 Risk and internal control 55 How we raise our funds 41 Planning for 2012/13 and beyond ... us. Over 3 million people accessed our website for information and advice or to learn more about what we do and the products and services we offer. Our flagship Information and Advice service reached
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Paying for residential care in a care home is expensive. There is some help available to meet the cost, but the care system can - unfortunately - be complicated and difficult to find your way through.
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by older people? • Most informal care for older people is provided by partners and adult children. Changes in family structure, whether it may be from having fewer children and starting families later ... getting married, greater social acceptability of a childfree lifestyle, delaying having children until it’s biologically too late, or the perceived costs and benefits of childbearing versus work and leisure
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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 our communities are significantly underprepared to manage the ... there is a real need to work together to remove the barriers older people face to participating in their communities. Our vision is that everyone can live well in later life. Living longer is a huge
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forms of discrimination, ageism is based on inaccurate stereotypes. These ageist attitudes are all too often reflected and amplified by the media. The effect of ageism is that older people frequently experience ... experience discriminatory treatment. As a result society is failing to benefit fully from the valuable resources that older people offer – as potential employees, volunteers, elected representatives and
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Accessibility Action Plan consultation Department for Transport November 2017 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people ... respond to the Department for Transport’s Accessibility Action Plan Consultation. Accessible transport is a crucial factor in determining older people’s ability to access vital services and communities, as
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population said they had no religion, compared with just 15% with no religion in 2001.2 The UK is relatively secular in its religious attitudes. Although, in the 2011 census, two thirds of the population of England ... themselves as ‘religious’ [Figure 1]. The perception is that, older people are more likely to have a religion. While that is true [Figure 4], it does not necessarily mean that people become more religious
