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services 6 • Public transport 7 • Public seating and places to rest 8 • Public toilets 9 • Pavements 10 • Neighbourhood safety 11 • Places to meet 12 • Information and advice 13 • Health and social services ... older people in Wales to assess how age friendly is their community. An age friendly community is suitable and empowering for people of all ages, with facilities that help people to enjoy health, wellbeing
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non-users. 4.2 million people aged 65+ have never used the internet. A quarter (26%) of people aged 65 to 74 and around three-fifths (61%) of people aged 75+ do not regularly use the internet. The Office for ... Statistics (ONS) publishes information each year setting out the numbers and proportions of people who use the internet.i In the UK in 2016, 5.3 million adults have never used the internet while a further
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Dementia is seeking responses to a call for evidence for their 2015 inquiry into dementia and co-morbidities. Introduction In 2014, around 850,000 people in the UK were estimated to have dementia (both diagnosed ... people with dementiai. These figures are likely to increase significantly as the UK’s population ages, with the total number of people with dementia predicted to exceed 1 million by 2021ii. Alzheimer’s disease
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(ELSA) survey to obtain predictors of loneliness and to test for the presence of spatial neighbouring effects (i.e. spatial dependence). The results are applied to data from the Census 2011 to predict the ... of 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;
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Evidence submission Age UK’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s Inquiry on Intergenerational Fairness February 2016 ... charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network includes around 165 local Age UKs reaching most of England. In 2014-15 nearly 5.7million people came to Age UK and our
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Budget cuts and under-funding are leaving thousands of older people across Wales struggling to live at home independently. And many are being hospitalised with preventable conditions because ... close to breaking point. That’s according to our new report called ‘Improving domiciliary care in Wales’. ‘Improving domiciliary care in Wales’ identifies four key areas where action is needed to create
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set out in our report The Health and Care of Older People in England 2017, is now not only failing to meet the needs of increasing numbers of older people (1.2 million at our latest count), but also having ... not be enough to keep the system going until a new, sustainable approach is put in place.’ “In recent months different experts have come up with a range of numbers for how much is needed to keep Social Care
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relates to the challenge of providing a service where demand far outstrips supply and against the backdrop of ever reducing funding levels. Funding levels impact greatly on commissioners’ ability to plan ... Despite the will of staff and leaders to provide good quality care and support as envisaged through the Social Services and Well-being Act, changes to date appear to have largely been small in scale, rather
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‘Designing the broadband universal service obligation’.1 The findings will influence Ofcom’s advice to the Department for Culture Media & Sport on the design of the broadband universal service obligation ... largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We help more than 5 million people every year, providing support, companionship and advice for older people who need it most. 2. We
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www.agecymru.org.uk facebook.com/agecymru twitter.com/agecymru Practical and costeffective ways to keep warm, well and safe this winter Winter can be a tough time for all of us but especially this year ... Matters we’ve brought together lots of advice on a wide range of subjects to help keep you warm, safe and well this winter. We want to show you that no matter how challenging life can sometimes seem that there’s
