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Age UK briefing – discharging older people from hospitals June 2016 How and when someone is discharged from hospital, and the support they receive in the aftermath, are critical determinants of their ... 13 per cent of these lost days were attributed to so-called ‘patient choice’. However calls to Age UK’s information and advice line1 shed important light on the experiences of some older people and reveal
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Paper 2 • September 2014 www.southampton.ac.uk/ageing Pension receipt in the UK: are older individuals from ethnic ... were born in the UK are more likely to receive a state pension, an occupational/ private pension or the Pension Credit than those who have never worked and those who were born outside the UK. Introduction
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Closure Briefing September 2016 Age UK is concerned at the closure of nearly 10,000 bank branches in the last 25 years (over half of all branches across the UK), leaving hundreds of thousands of older ... the past year, with more than 600 bank branches closing across Britain in this period. As such, Age UK have prepared this briefing as a way of supporting MPs to respond to closures in your local area, as
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1 Age UK Poverty Evidence Review 2014 Matthew Norton and Sally West Age UK Evidence Review: Poverty in Later Life Contents Key Statistics ..................................................... ... ..................................................................................... 19 2 Age UK Poverty Evidence Review 2014 Matthew Norton and Sally West Key Statistics 1.6 million pensioners
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0 Age UK End of Life Evidence Review 2013 Susan Davidson and Tom Gentry End of Life Evidence Review Table of Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................ ... ................... 17 5 What can Age UK/Third Sector organisations do? .......................................................... 19 6. What are local Age UKs doing?.................................
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FAQs about Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life 1. What is Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life? Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life is a summary measure that provides information on how ... how well older people aged 60 and over in the UK are doing in life. It provides an average wellbeing score of between 0 and 100, with 100 being the highest score representing the greatest level of wellbeing
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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. This paper may be published ... Services david.steele@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9NA T 0800 169 80 80 F 020 3033 1000 E policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited
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Age UK briefing for MPs – Excess Winter Deaths June 2016 Over the last ten years a shocking quarter of a million older people have died from the cold –1 older person every 7 minutes and at the root of ... to an average of £370 per household) Energy efficiency There are 6 million low income homes in the UK with an energy efficiency of Band D or lower, but only 1.8 million energy efficiency measures have
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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 risk. All other attempts ... feel lonely”, giving choices of frequency. Results are then given for those who say “often” (in Age UK survey, in line with Victor’s survey questions “often” or “always”). What is ELSA and why are we using
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1 Age UK Digital Inclusion Evidence Report 2013 Marcus Green and Phil Rossall Digital inclusion evidence review Contents 1 Digital inclusion of older people in the UK ........................ ... ....................................................................................... 17 2 Age UK Digital Inclusion Evidence Report 2013 Marcus Green and Phil Rossall Fear .....................
