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2015 Loneliness at local and neighbourhood level Summary July 2015 What is loneliness? Loneliness can be understood as an individual’s personal, subjective sense of lacking desired affection, closeness ... has a social aspect, loneliness is also defined by an individual’s subjective emotional state. How can it be measured? Age UK’s research is the first and, so far, only evidence linking loneliness with local
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Every client presents a different challenge, a different way of looking at what they need and how I can best support them to achieve their desired result. Everyone has their own story, some very sad ... we are one big caring family - growing and learning together as we reach out to offer hope to those who need it.’ This piece was written for the newsletter by Caroline, one of our volunteers from Carmarthenshire
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It’s free and easy to check whether you have any dormant bank accounts, insurance policies, pensions or premium bonds, so if you think you may have a lost account it’s definitely worth finding ... addresses or you may have had an account opened for you as a child that you’ve forgotten about. An account can be lost or marked as ‘inactive’ if: a financial institution hasn’t been able to contact you – most
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More money in your pocket How to claim the right benefits in later life Money matters Creating an age friendly Wales 2 More money in your pocket We are Age Cymru. Age Cymru is the national charity for ... and programmes directly to older people in the community and we ensure the highest standards so you can be assured of consistency and quality wherever you see the Age Cymru name and logo. Our family includes
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Page 1 of 22 Factsheet 91 Pension Freedom and benefits June 2024 About this factsheet Changes to how you can use funds in your occupational or private pension were made in 2015. Once you reach the age ... access your pension savings or pension pot and to decide what to do with this money. This factsheet contains basic information about your choices with respect to drawing down pension savings. You can contact
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Education sector. The section of the consultation concerned with Informal Adult and Community Learning can be found in a separate response, ref: 5511 Key points and recommendations • Age UK warmly welcomes ... system of fees will, we believe, go some way to achieving these aims, and will help older learners who need to re-skill later in their careers – it is an essential component of the policy to extend working
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any of its subsidiary companies or charities. 3 Contents. What this guide is about. 4. How Age UK can help. 5. General help. 8. Money matters. 9. Legal and consumer issues. 13. Crime. 18. Housing. 20 ... reliable and up to date. This handy directory brings together the details of trusted organisations that can help you – either now or in the future. We provide contact details for organisations across England
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one is over Pension Credit age 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 ... where one partner has reached Pension Credit age and the other is younger could receive £100 less a week under Universal Credit compared to the current system of Pension Credit if neither is in work. The
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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 over. The number of people aged 65 years and over is approximately 662 ... that when there's insufficient knowledge or understanding about older people in Government, decisions can be made that are damaging to them. In our national survey of older people in Wales in 2023, 70% of
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in a hospital. Most falls don’t cause serious injury but they can leave you distressed. The good news is that there are lots of things you can do to stay steady on your feet.
