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your confidence and communication skills • Work experience evidence if required • Appreciation of mobility restrictions and how best to be able to support older people You will receive • Induction and Safeguarding ... Understanding dementia training and how it affects those diagnosed and their families • Insight training to mobility issues Time commitment: Volunteering is flexible and can accommodate your availability, it would
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more so now that we’re retired ... we’ve done our bit, working all our lives.’ - Male, 65+, with mobility difficulties, Durham 5. Facts and figures on bus services and older people 5.2 Approximately 35 ... shelters. 6.4 There should be a consistent approach to offering assistance to older people with reduced mobility or a disability. 6.5 While we recognise the need for smaller providers to be able to adapt solutions
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2.1 Rules about your age 4 3 Current rates 5 4 PIP components 5 4.1 Daily living component 6 4.2 Mobility component 7 5 Making a claim 7 5.1 When to claim 7 5.2 How to claim 7 5.3 How your claim is assessed ... DLA guidance 19 12 PIP Activities, descriptors and points 20 12.1 Daily living activities 20 12.2 Mobility activities 24 Useful organisations 25 Age UK 29 Support our work 29 Age UK factsheet April
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older people to continue driving safely for longer. - The development of new platforms, such as mobile phone apps, to support the “social economy” could facilitate greater peer to peer transport provision ... activities. - Community car sharing schemes with volunteer drivers are very important for supporting mobility in rural areas and should be extended. - Volunteers could make busy transport hubs easier to navigate
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services and the lack of bus and community transport in the evenings. For older people with limited mobility, getting to the bus stop and on and off the bus are issues that are compounded by a lack of facilities ... as the only practical form of independent transport, including older people that may experience mobility problems as they age, or for carers, and for those living in rural areas where public transport
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countries shows that fear of crime is often significantly associated with low quality of life, limited mobility and poor health status. There is no systematic research comparing fear of crime and its potential ... OF CRIME AFFECT OLDER PEOPLE’S LIVES? The SAGE data show fear of crime restricts older people’s mobility and social capital. For example, older people who reported street fear went out of the home less
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Adaptations Grants for community landlord housing 33 7 Outdoor electric scooters or buggies 34 7.1 The Motability scheme 35 8 Personal alarms and other assistive technology 35 8 ... to buy 43 12.4 VAT relief (exemption) on disability equipment 44 12.5 Reduced VAT rate of 5% for mobility aids for people aged 60 or over 45 12.6 Problems with equipment you
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a Sunday when you can’t go out. I mean you can’t even go to a church service.” Female, 75+, with mobility and sensory difficulties “I’ve got friends that will give us a lift if it’s a time where I need ... you know? You don’t like asking people all the time. I’d rather get there myself.” Male, 65+, with mobility difficulties “When the Olympic torch went through the next village they said ‘please come and
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obstructed with parked cars, bins and street furniture restricted access for wheelchairs and mobility scooters. Problems with dog fouling and litter were also highlighted. • 22.9% of respondents rated public ... services, very limited access to public toilets, anti-social behaviour and hazards for people with mobility issues add to the number who feel isolated and lonely’ (Community Calculator respondent) 4 Introduction
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as the only practical form of independent transport, including older people that may experience mobility issues, or for carers, and for those living in rural areas where public transport is sparse. Continuing ... access, better waiting rooms, shelters, toilets, lighting and seating.5 For older people with limited mobility, getting to the bus stop and on and off the bus are significant issues which are compounded by a
