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is particularly needed against a backdrop of technological change. To help, we have expanded the system of flexible and personal learning to develop adaptable skills to increase workforce resilience, and
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friendly environments - Professor Judith Phillips OBE Page 14 Vision for an age friendly transport system in Wales - Dr Charles Musselwhite Page 24 Housing options for older people - Catherine Boswell and ... Wales]) had identified that it was essential to embed intergenerational approaches as part of a systemic approach to enabling everyone to have the opportunity to age well. From this they agreed their threeyear
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1948, the Act has introduced significant new provisions and, from April 2016, will introduce a new system of paying for care. Age UK contributed to the passing of the Act in May 2014, following many years ... Preventative services such as meals on wheels and day care had been especially hard hit, leaving the system increasingly the preserve of older people in the most acute need and potentially creating problems
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Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland. Summary Even if people are aware that the State Pension system is changing, many do not fully understand how this will affect them. People often have limited knowledge ... many who are not in the new system it is the policy not the communications that is their concern. Groups who may have planned their retirement income based on the current system and could be worse off due
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flexibly could also be a good bridge into retirement. Stopping work suddenly can cause a shock to the system, and some people find that they get bored or even depressed after retirement. Flexible working could
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£73.2 million. The income reduction was mainly due to the planned sale of Aid-Call, our personal alarm service, and the closure of Age UK Training. Because we were aware of the financial pressures these ... announced in the Spring Budget, while pointing out that this would do little more than allow the system to keep pace with demographic and cost pressures. A much more ambitious programme of reform and investment
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wilderness. The reason for the 40 years’ wandering, so we are led to believe, was not simply lack of GPS systems on their iPhones, but it was to ensure that neither Moses nor any of the generation that were part ... that the immune system does not function correctly in old age – termed immune-senescence. You can take steps to try to maintain a healthy immune system in older age. 15 The immune system, the job of which
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The need for inclusive, age-friendly design. It is essential that redesign of the UK’s payments system anticipates the needs of older customers and involves them at all stages of the design process. Whatever ... customer and payment system vulnerabilities. The system at the moment is too porous to fraudsters, whose activity undermines public confidence in the security of the banking and payments systems. We believe that
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and spiritual aspects of patient care Offer a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death Offer a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and ... age. In the 65-69 age group the leading cause is cancer, followed by diseases of the circulatory system. This gradually shifts as age increases so that by the age of 80, circulatory diseases are the most
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Through our Care in Crisis campaign we fought to protect existing care services and for a better system for the future. We got 130,000 signatures for our Care in Crisis petition, far exceeding our 100 ... Ending the crisis in care We continue to lead the debate to ensure that our health and social care system treats older people with dignity and respect, is of a high quality and is affordable and sustainable
