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support, you can ensure we continue to be here for older people, now and in the future. Here's a few simple ideas. donate the amount you would have spent on your Christmas meal donate your drink. You can still ... still enjoy your favourite tipple from home - you just donate what you’ve saved instead donate your taxi ride home donate the money you would have spent on a Secret Santa present for a colleague
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subjected to ageist attitudes. Older people deserve equal respect, rights and the same access to services as the rest of the population. It’s important for older people to be aware of their rights and be able ... Pensioner poverty While 120,000 pensioners live in poverty (v), millions of pounds of entitlements go unclaimed each year in Wales - money that could be used to lift older people out of poverty. Pension
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1 Summary As local authorities look for ways to cut spending, while continuing to support growing numbers of older people to stay healthy and active, this briefing makes the case for: • Building the ... all decisions Introduction Local authorities will be bracing themselves for the worst this autumn, as the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review reveals the extent of the cuts to local government spending
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vass@ageuk.org.uk 2 The Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last ‘Spring’ Budget on 8 March (as Budgets will in future take place in the Autumn). In a document that was light on surprises, most of ... other organisations - has been calling for an emergency injection of funding for social care which, as set out in our report The Health and Care of Older People in England 2017, is now not only failing
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older people in Wales 7 Advocacy services for a wider client group but older people are 7 supported as part of the service Language 8 Quality and standards 8 Conclusions and recommendations 9 3.Developments ... advocacy sector in Wales but undertook a further desk top exercise to ensure we engaged with as many providers as possible. The Advocacy Counts survey respondents are self-selecting. Responses are sought
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To meet the project objectives by recruiting, inducting, training and supporting suitable volunteers as part of the Listen and Connect Service. Main Responsibilities: 1. Implement the volunteer recruitment ... 11. Support the Service Coordinator with disseminating information to volunteers and service users as appropriate. 2 12. Promote the service via a range of platforms and networks. Person Specification
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services for older people. We would not wish to see them extended to cover advocacy services for adults as they currently stand. Whilst there are many similarities, and a shared set of principles, between ... interpret terms within the regulations, such as “sufficient” numbers of staff, which are not available in the adult advocacy sector. Our concerns are that, as currently drafted: 1. The regulations will
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the fact that FRMPs include a focus on people, as well as the environment and economic activity. We welcome the inclusion of social objectives as well as environmental and economic ones. However, we think ... recent floods. In an ageing society, we expect older people to become a key at-risk group, especially as the population of older and retired people in coastal and rural areas – including many areas at risk
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advice and support services of worrying delays in being assessed by social care for their needs, as well as further delays once the assessment has been completed in sourcing care packages. We are concerned ... reduction of over 12% of people approaching social care during 2020/21. In meetings with social care leads as part of the research, they told us of the increased complexity of needs of people approaching them
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the 2005 general election, voting was more common with increasing age: 75% of those 65-plus voted, as opposed to 37% of those 1824.28 However, only 30% of people 65-74 and 29% of people 75+ feel they ... Britain (53%) feel that politicians treat older people as second-class citizens.30 68% of people aged 65+ agree that politicians tend to see older people as a low priority31, and 67% of adults say that politicians
