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Age Matters The quarterly newsletter from Age Cymru Winter Warmth Edition 2021 Creating an age friendly Wales www.agecymru.org.uk facebook.com/agecymru twitter.com/agecymru 2 The quarterly newsletter ... Cymru Winter Edition 2021 Facing the challenges of winter with confidence By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, November 2021 As we leave autumn and enter winter many of us are thinking about what the coming
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please see the Community Energy Programme Evaluation Report, or its accompanying summary, or contact Vinal K Karania at Vinal.Karania@ageuk.org.uk Cold weather has shown to increase the demand on the heath ... particular, it is believed to be the main reason behind increases in respiratory and circulatory diseases in winter. Older people are more likely to suffer from cold weather and in addition to affecting their health
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More money in your pocket Claiming the right benefits for you Money matters Who we are Age Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales. We work to develop and deliver positive change with ... affecting people over 50 in Wales. Age Cymru Advice is committed to being the foremost information and advice service to older people in Wales. We aim to provide effective, accessible, high-quality information
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after, or give any help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of longterm physical or mental ill-health or disability, or issues related to growing older. As a carer, you’ve ... You have the right to: • receive information, advice and assistance from your Local Authority about support services like practical help at home, support groups near you, or counselling to help deal with
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Acknowledgements The author of this report would like to thank the representatives of local Age UK Brand Partners (Cheschire, Darlington, North Tyneside, South Lakeland, South Tyneside and Teeside), the Community ... Community Energy Programme team (in particular Nicola Hart) and older people participating in the project who shared information for this evaluation. Author Vinal K Karania is Research Manager at Age UK
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Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality ... services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond
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Consultation Response Age UK’s response to the DWP consultation ‘Reforms to the Social Fund’s Funeral Expenses Payments scheme’ August 2017 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce ... reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. sally.west@ageuk
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October 2012 The Welfare Reform Act 2012 changes the way that couples are treated within the benefits system when one is over the qualifying age for Pension Credit and the other younger. In the future, couples ... lower benefit support. This paper looks at the impact of the proposed reforms. Key points Couples where one partner has reached Pension Credit age and the other is younger could receive £100 less
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Advocacy: Supporting you to be informed, heard and involved Someone there for me and only me Someone to listen to me so I can make my own decisions Someone to support me Someone to help me access and understand ... understand information Someone to represent me Why might I or someone I know need an advocate? Because… • Sometimes I don’t understand the information people give me about my care and support • I think
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November 2021 1. Who are we? Age Cymru is the national Charity for older people in Wales, we work with our five local Age Cymru partners to improve the lives of older people in Wales. We’ve a shared ... shared vision of an age friendly Wales and together we work to make life better for older people in Wales through our influencing and campaigning, through free, high quality information and advice and through
