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socially active you will be doing your bit to help reduce the pressure on the NHS – as well as improving your own wellbeing.
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volunteering experience? Passing on skills taught via AC to reach out to the community helping others to improve their daily lives through gentle social activities. What would you say to someone who is thinking
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falls are not inevitable. There is a mass of evidence showing that exercise programmes designed to improve strength and balance, delivered over several weeks or months by a local service, can lead to a reduction ... falls and ultimately to save lives. We are calling on all those responsible to work together to improve access to falls prevention services for all people in later life who are at risk of falling. The
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and health interventions are provided to older people across Wales. These services are vital to improving the physical and mental health of older people and to helping them to live more independently. In ... replacement for longer-term, structural improvements to people’s quality of life. Often, the most effective form of preventative care is a holistic improvement to quality of life. Access to adequate housing
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year on we wanted to know if the changes local authorities told us about last year were making improvements to older people’s access to social care. Conclusions 1. A picture is emerging of a less healthy ... 3. Communication with older people waiting and the information they receive continues to need improvement. 4. Data collection systems are still not able to effectively monitor and report on the levels
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bus at least once a weekii. Age UK believes the following measures need to be put in place to improve local transport: The funding and planning of local transport crosses national and local government ... together to make sure transport investment is properly targeted and innovative solutions are found. Improving the availability of public transport should be a priority for the Government. There needs to be
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Housing assets are viewed differently from other assets. First and foremost the owner‐occupied property is a ‘home’ and only used as a source of income as a last resort for emergency support later in life. • T ... Britain is not yet a ‘nation of inheritors’ because it will be some time yet before the cohort of new home owners from the 1980s onwards, pass on their wealth • Older people would prefer not to use their
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shows, the services provided by Age Cymru locally and nationally are a lifeline for many and have improved people’s lives, delivering £13 million in extra entitlements in 2012/13. We believe more should ... sure these services are available to all older people across Wales. This is one of 6 key areas of improvement highlighted in Life on a low income.
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understand what kinds of things to focus resources and efforts into to help achieve the largest improvement in the wellbeing of older people. For example it can help us see which groups of older people are ... are most likely to experience low or high wellbeing, and what kinds of things we can do to help improve wellbeing amongst those who have low wellbeing. In the future, the Index will also be able to track
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registered address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA 2 Priorities Industry must improve its research practice so that it understands the needs of its older customers and of the market composed ... simply whilst saving and at retirement. Investment in providing more accessible information, improving existing guidance, such as Pension Wise, and developing a joined-advice journey from mid-life career
