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are many things to do, often at a time of great personal distress when we feel least able to manage. The following pages take you step by step through what you need to go and where to go for help.
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AgeUKIL1 How to stay safe when it’s hot. Staying cool in a heatwave. 2 High temperatures and humidity can present a risk to our health – especially as we get older. Here are some helpful tips on how to stay ... out and about. • Try to avoid spending too much time outside or exercising during the hottest part of the day (between 11 a m and 3pm). Try and keep in the shade when you can. • Wear a sun hat and carry
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Department for Business Innovation & Skills call for evidence on improving the consumer landscape and quicker switching June 2016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper ... purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. Phil Mawhinney phil.mawhinney@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square
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Summary 3 2. Background 5 3. Thoughts and feelings about the internet 7 4. Understanding life offline 13 5. Reactions to organising tasks online 24 6. Conclusions and recommendations 25 7. Appendix 28 ... this research shows that this audience, while not necessarily opposed to ever going online, have many deeply entrenched barriers to using the internet. Overall for this group, the downsides of going online
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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 at reasonable cost, in reasonable time and with reasonable ... reasonable ease and that transport is vital to leading an active and independent life. 2. A lack access to transport can have a profound impact on the quality of life, health and wellbeing of those in later life
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eligibility criteria, and how to make a claim. The factsheet explains how Carer’s Allowance may affect any other benefits you, or the person you care for, are receiving, and what to do if you have a change ... Carer Support Payment in Scotland. The two benefits have broadly similar rules, so where the factsheet refers to Carer’s Allowance, the same information applies to Carer Support Payment. Where the rules
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term can be used to designate any service that is designed to help people who have support needs to live well1 and remain independent for as long as possible. An ageing population and increasing numbers ... numbers of people with complex long-term health and care needs are placing the current system of social services under pressure, even without the funding pressures which local authorities are currently confronting
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www.agecymru.org.uk Factsheet 21w June 2024 Council Tax in Wales – information about the tax and help you might get towards your bill Factsheet 21w June 2024 ... Council Tax? 4 3 Who has to pay the Council Tax? 5 3.1 Challenging liability 6 4 Are you eligible to pay less Council Tax? 7 5 Are you in the right Council Tax band? 8 5.1 Making a proposal 9 6 Council Tax
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F-WORD Advice to practitioners on communicating falls prevention messages to older people Falling in older age can lead to increased anxiety and depression, reduced activity, mobility and social contact ... contact, higher use of medication and greater dependence on medical and social services and other forms of care. Despite the fact that there are many different interventions that can reduce the risk of falls
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housing wealth and other assets to pay for care Summary • In the UK, personal wealth , including housing wealth, is greatest in older age, driven by the natural lifecycle of wealth accumulation and decumul ... decumulation and the huge rise in house prices • Wealth inequality is much greater than income inequality so the holding of housing wealth in older age is by no means universal • Housing assets are viewed
