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your experience of accessing social care in the last three months if needed?(e.g. getting an assessment for your needs, needs as a carer, day centre support, help athomewithdailylivingtasks,gettingsupporttoleavehospital ... No(IfNo,skiptoquestionA8)If Yes,haveyouincreasedtheamountofcareyouprovideinthelastthreemonths? Yes NoIf you ticked Yes to question A7, you may like to know that Age Cymru and Carers Trust have a project
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AgeUKIG23 What to do if you need care and support at home. Getting help at home. 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining ... Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide relatable examples that benefit others. Email your story
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which an employer can force an employee to retire) • How age discrimination and unfair dismissal will operate in the absence of Schedule 6. • Discussions on retirement plans between an employer and employee ... Age. This will have a positive impact on individuals, employers and the UK economy by helping many people who want or need to work remain in employment. We support the timescale for phasing out the Default
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1 Behind the headlines: Why the employment rate does not tell the whole story about working longer April 2017 2 Contents Summary of findings................................................ ... ................................................. 12 3 Summary of findings The headline employment rate does not tell the whole story about how the labour market has changed for older workers, making
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property to decide whether it is suitable 9 7 Types of occupation contracts 11 7.1 Standard occupation contracts 11 7.2 Secure occupation contracts ... be an occupation contract 13 7.4 Seeking advice before signing an occupation contract 14 8 Information you should have in a written
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authorities across Wales, the social care leads, Care and Repair Cymru, and the older people and older carers across Wales who we spoke to – all of whom helped shape this work. 2 Why are we waiting? Delays ... completed. These delays have a significant detrimental impact on those individuals waiting, their carers, family and their wider support network. Through our research we wanted to understand: • The scale
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and loneliness 16 • Transport 18 • Housing 19 • Bereavement and grief 21 4. Unpaid carers 23 5. Veterans 25 6. Employment 26 7. Communication 27 8. Representation in society 29 The year ahead 1. Looking ... “Difficult to get GP appointments when needed, if you don’t get in the queue first thing in the morning you can’t get an appointment.” Some unpaid carers told us of the additional pressures they have in
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aware of and what to do if you spot them: Lotteries and prize draws You may receive a letter congratulating you on winning a cash prize. Usually you’ll be given a number to call, and if you do, you’ll be asked ... that they are ‘predicting’ a piece of ‘good luck’. Don’t respond – although the letter may look as if you’ve been specially chosen, this type of letter is sent out to millions and is a scam. Pyramid schemes
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older people bring as employees and contributors to wider society and to the economy. Employment and employment support More people are working for longer than ever before. For some this is through choice ... (though the number of older people has also increased in this time). 10% of this age group is in employment in Wales.2 1 Office for National Statistics
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delays in sourcing care packages once an assessment had been completed. A year on we wanted to know if the changes local authorities told us about last year were making improvements to older people’s ... for Unpaid Carers. This is an additional recommendation for this year due to the increase in volume of unpaid care being delivered. Whilst some LAs are working hard to involve unpaid carers in service
