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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 this problem are cold, poorly insulated homes. The issue Facts and figures Winter deaths 2.5 million avoidable deaths over the last 60 years Every winter in England and Wales one older
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Frailty: Language and Perceptions A report prepared by BritainThinks on behalf of Age UK and the British Geriatrics Society June 2015 2 Contents 1. Background 3 2. Executive Summary 7 3. Responses to the language of frailty 10 4. Articulating the concept of frailty 14 5. Attitudes to support to prevent and manage frailty 19 6. Appendix 26 3
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Delivering Dignity Securing dignity in care for older people in hospitals and care homes The NHS Confederation is a membership body that represents all organisations that commission and provide NHS services and is a registered charity number 1090329. The Local Government Association (LGA) is a politically led organisation, working to support, promote and improve local government. Age UK is a
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1 Dementia Friendly Resource Guide 2 The Dementia Friendly Programme was funded by the Department of Health Strategic Partnership programme from 2012–2013 and then by the Big Lottery Fund from 2013–2015. The programme supported over 70 local Age UKs to make their mainstream services more accessible to people with dementia and their carers. This support was delivered by Dementia Adventure CIC (
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Exploring variations in access to surgery among older people Access all ages 2 MHP Health was commissioned by the RCS to research and draft the report. MHP Health is an award-winning specialist health policy and communications consultancy. For further details please contact Stephanie Bell stephanie.bell@mhpc.com 020 3128 8100 1 Forewords 2 2 Key findings 4 3 Executive summary
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ac.uk/medialibrary/A%20 Research%20and%20 Evaluation%20Framework%20 for%20Age-friendly%20Cities_ web%20version.pdf. Phillipson, C. (2012) Developing Age-Friendly Cities: Policy Challenges & Options. Housing
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Healthy Ageing Evidence Review This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, in order to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising and influencing. 1Healthy Ageing Evidence Review Key messages 3 1 Policy context 4 2 Definition of healthy ageing 6 3 The need for healthy ageing services 8 4 What kind of
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Care of the Dying Adult Consultation on draft guideline – deadline for comments 5pm on 09/09/2015 email: CareofDyingAdult@nice.org.uk Please return to: CareofDyingAdult@nice.org.uk Please read the checklist for submitting comments at the end of this form. We cannot accept forms that are not filled in correctly. We would like to hear your views on these questions: 1. Which areas
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Consultation Response Reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect: Home Office and Department for Education October, 2016 Ref 3016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this 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.
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health Inquiry Delivering the Five Year Forward View: Behavioural change, information and signposting Ref: 2715 Date: October 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this 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
