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calling on the next UK Government to bring forward practical policies to ensure older people in Wales have the best experience of later life. Approximately 1,300,100 people who live in Wales are aged 50 or ... is expected to increase by almost 18% mid - 2021 and 2031 and the number of people aged 75 and over is expected to increase by 24% during the same time frame. We need the UK Government to take account
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appropriate actions can be developed to assist them to more confidently access the services and support that they need. Priorities should include actions to reduce barriers to accessing public services that ... the area over which Welsh Government has influence and the ability to make changes sooner than in seeking further devolved powers to address specific concerns. 2. Do you agree with the overarching aims
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What is preventing progress? Time to move from talk to action on reducing preventable illness A report by The Richmond Group of Charities November 2014 25 2025 BY CONTENTSABOUT The Richmond Group of Charities ... demands a national movement to meet it. All political parties should commit to making prevention of ill health a top priority. All party leaders should provide personal leadership to the prevention effort and
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that 155,000 households in Wales were living in fuel poverty. This is equivalent to 12% of all households in Wales.1 To tackle fuel poverty effectively, Welsh Government must provide updated estimates ... most likely to suffer from fuel poverty, where having to spend a disproportionate amount on fuel takes money away from other essentials. A contributing factor is that older people tend to live in older
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Ageing Evidence Review This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, in order to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising ... volunteers, who often gain or regain a sense of usefulness and purpose. • The lay health educator model (the Senior Health Mentor) has been effective in improving healthy behaviours and reaching hard-to-reach
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charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network comprises of around 150 local Age UKs reaching most of England. Each year we provide Information and Advice to around 5 million ... through web based and written materials and individual enquiries by telephone, letters, emails and face to face sessions. We work closely with Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland. Local Age UKs are active in
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(enclave) and deprivation) and pension protection among individuals from ethnic minority groups compared to the White British majority population. Key Points • The level of concentration of own-ethnic-group ... pension protection such as being in paid employment, being an employee, and working for an employer who offers a pension scheme. However, the concentration of one’s own ethnic group has no significant effect
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changes to the taxation of pensions for a generation. The reforms increase the complexity of retirement income decisions for individuals. Simply expanding the choices available is unlikely to result in ... pressure placed on companies to offer good value annuities, there may not be pressure to offer good value alternatives. Behavioural biases will mean that most consumers will struggle to make these decisions and
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defined as needing to spend 10 per cent or more of household income on fuel to maintain a heating regime adequate to safeguard comfort and health. Around 291,000 households were estimated to be in fuel poverty ... poverty in 2016, equivalent to 23% of households in Wales1. This represents a 7% decrease since 2012. Older people are the group most likely to suffer from fuel poverty. On average there are around 1,600
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..................................................................................... 6 Background to ‘social prescribing’ ............................................................................. ... 3 Acknowledgements The authors of this report would like to thank: Vinal K Karania, Devna Vickerman and David Terrace of Age UK National who liaised with the research team throughout the project, and
