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1 The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations were introduced in to UK law on 1 October 2006. They were aimed at securing the legal rights of older workers and engendering a cultural change towards more ... more positive treatment of this age group in across all parts of the employment cycle. However, this was undermined by the Default Retirement Age – an anomaly contained within the legislation allowing employers
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Change that Lasts: creating safer communities for survivors of domestic abuse The Change That Lasts Ask Me project was developed in partnership between Women’s Aid Federation of England and Welsh Women’sAid. Funded by: In partnership with: The ask me scheme… …aims tobreak the silence about domestic abuse within a community, and remove the barriers that make it hard for survivors to tell others
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Written evidence: Bus Services Bill March 2017 Why bus services matter to older people 1. Age UK believes that wherever they live older people should be able to reach key services, friends and family ... particular concern being the ability to travel to medical appointments. 3. Age UK is calling for all areas and means of transport to be ‘age-friendly’ so that older people can remain active for as long as possible
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Toynbee Hall Provocation for AgeUK Roundtable: Later older age: how do you maintain control and stay financially included? “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ... Payments Council in 2012 on the payment needs of the “Older Old”1 clearly showed that we travel into old age carrying the experiences and knowledge which we have gathered along our life journey; and yet, by the
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1 Bank Branch 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 ... 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 well as supporting services to become “Age Friendly”. The importance
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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 ..................................................... ... ........................................... 12 Entering a low income after reaching State Pension Age ................................................................................. 13 Living on a low
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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 ........................................................ ... ............................................................................... 1 2 Age and cause of death ............................................................................................
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22 2 Part 10 Code of Practice page 7 para 16 3 Part 10 Code of Practice page 8 para 22 Creating an age friendly Wales The Code of Practice (Part 10, Advocacy) states that: Advocacy helps people to understand ... continued to shrink. This leads to gaps in provision for citizens and a “postcode lottery” of services. Age Cymru is particularly concerned that while the number of organisations providing support to older people
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to: • Understand your accommodation options? • Understand the choices you can make? • Access the services you need? • Stay connected to the things that matter to you? • Know your rights, and make sure ... • Have your voice heard in all aspects of your life? • Have a voice in meetings? Dementia Advocacy: supporting you to be heard and at the centre of decisions Are you, or someone you know, aged 18+ and
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- August 2023 Recommendations • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered in Wales and England ... Registered office address Ground Floor, Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD. ©Age Cymru 2023
