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later life. We help more than 5 million people every year, providing support, advice and companionship for older people who need it most. We run programmes to help people keep warm in winter, including support ... importance of energy prices to older people. There are 542,000 older households (where the oldest person is aged 60+) in fuel poverty in England. This equates to about 1 million people aged 60+. The depth
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Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access ... services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond
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we cannot respond to people as quickly as we’d like to. At present, there is a two week delay in responding to enquiries received by email or letter. Please be aware that during busy times, you may
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©2021 Age Cymru. Creating an age friendly Wales Keeping well at home There are number of things that people can do to help stay mentally and physically well whilst at home. As a ‘Friend’ you could help the ... Wales for exercise that can be done from home. They can also be downloaded as pdfs to be given to people who don’t have access to the internet. • Sitting exercises: https://www.nhs.uk/livewell/exercise/sitting-exercises/
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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 ... preventive approaches. • Programmes that promote preventive approaches, such as the Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs) have been evaluated as being effective and cost-efficient. • Health promotion
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might be able to get a benefit called Attendance Allowance. Attendance Allowance is a benefit for older people who may need extra help to stay independent at home, due to an illness or disability. To be eligible ... from help with personal care, such as getting washed or dressed, or supervision to keep you safe during the day or night have any type of disability or illness, including sight or hearing impairments,
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No one should have no one Working to end loneliness amongst older people No one should have no one 03 What is Age UK doing to address loneliness? 05 What have we learnt? 10 What can you do to prevent ... Age UK provides a wide range of services and its information and advice reached nearly 6 million people last year. The Age UK network comprises more than 150 local Age UKs covering most of England. Our
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place during a time of severe financial constraint, it is vital that local NHS services maintain high standards of care while also working to reform and change to better meet the needs of an older and ageing ... living longer, increasingly with complex needs, making sure the NHS is working effectively for older people is not only crucial to the wellbeing of a large proportion of our society but also crucial to
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Project Official Launch We’re proud to introduce an exciting new project that’s ready to support older people (50+) and carers all over Wales. The HOPE project (Helping others to participate and engage) ... are now in post and already working with older people, carers, volunteers and organisations across Wales. This exciting new project will be supporting people to engage, participate, gain information
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the current pandemic. If people were made aware of advocacy, the methods for communication were not always appropriate to the communication and educational needs of the people requiring it, barriers to ... and the inability to pick up non-verbal body language. The group discussions also highlighted people’s reluctance to ask for support, or the assumption that all services were closed, because of unclear
