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in the care and support of older people. Independent advocacy can help to redress the power imbalance that occurs in abuse situations and can enable the person to take back some control. In order to deliver ... departments, and other organisations or agencies involved, must comply with and follow the guidance, which can be accessed on the Social Care Wales website (see6). The Act includes a duty to report for local authorities
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scams in the UK every year, with people aged 65+ particularly likely to be targeted. Although anyone can fall prey to a scam, regardless of age, gender, education or economic background, older people are ... a fixed income, a scam can have a devastating financial and emotional impact. Some people sadly lose their entire life savings; although the loss or relatively small amounts can still have devastating
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from their medication-based treatments. Key points and recommendations Age UK’s detailed comments can be seen in the NICE proforma below. Key points from our response include: Reaffirming the importance ... the effects of inappropriate polypharmacy on older people and emphasising the role home care workers can have in reporting this to their family and prescribers. Stressing that covert administration of
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small pots. It can help to ensure pensions flexibilities will be a success. The dashboard should clearly show the current value of all savings, together with a simple projection of what they might be worth ... Pension age. It should also include a State Pension summary; calculators to enable people to test what different decumulation options might mean for their income, including the impact on tax and benefit
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principles we think could be reflected more strongly throughout this guidance: o It should be clear what costs are metered and people should be able to reconcile their actual costs with their metered costs; ... will work and which costs are included, even after a thorough briefing. To help people to understand what the policy really means for them there should be a much greater emphasis on the effect of the difference
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the recommendations made on pages 5-6 of our report, many of which relate to how energy companies can improve their support for, and reach to, older people who need extra help in a crisis. Key points ... deal. Further, we would ideally like to see a ‘tell us once’-style system whereby vulnerable people can easily notify and receive support from multiple utilities. We appreciate this poses significant practical
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derived rights it is essential that people are encouraged to claim credits due and that low paid part-time work is adequately recognised. The single-tier will be simpler in the future but inevitably the ... extending the single-tier pension to current pensioners, perhaps phasing this in over a period of time as costs allow. In the meantime more needs to be done to help the 1.7 million older people currently
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around the country. She also said that devolution and decisions needed to be transparent so that people can understand the choices. Baroness Jolly introduced the two final speakers of the meeting, Coleen Atkinson ... support people with five or more conditions in an integrated team. She emphasised that it took more time than people often thought it would to set it all up, and the planning phase was a long process. She
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specified a focus on four themes: - House building - in particular looking at new ways that councils can enable investment in new homes - Place shaping, community and infrastructure - in particular looking ... presented at the LGA Annual Conference in June 2016. Our response discusses how local authorities can contribute to improvements in older people’s housing 3 1. Key points and recommendations All
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annuities. It covers a range of behavioural and consumer protection issues that will apply to buyers (i.e. financial service companies) and brokers in the marketplace. Key points and recommendations ... should be a ‘legal requirement for free, tailored information from public bodies such as Pension Wise’i, indicating strong support for such an approach. Advertising and marketing There is a very real danger
