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Beat the bad weather with these simple steps If bad weather is forecast, make sure you have everything you need. Check you've got enough medication and food in case it's harder to leave the house ... house. A bottle of water could be handy if the water supply is interrupted. Have torches handy around the home in case of a power cut. And some spare batteries too. Keep emergency numbers nearby
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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 ... policy and practice. Contact: Jane.vass@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9NA T 0800 169 80 80 F 020 3033 1000 E policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is
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Social care funding July 2019 Summary Social care has historically suffered as a consequence of under-funding and this situation has been further aggravated in recent years as a result of widespread ... reductions in public sector budgets. The question of funding social care can be broken down into two parts: funding provided by government for statutory social care services; and the financial contribution that
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Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the help of Dan Philo, Senior Data Manager at Natcen for the sharing of datasets. Our thanks also go to Chris Curry, Director of the Pensions Policy Institute, for reviewing ... Rhode at Britain Thinks for their excellent, insightful qualitative research. Most of all we are indebted to the people who participated in our qualitative research, who shared their experiences, thoughts
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The Human Rights Act and Older People An Evidence Paper Alison Fenney 9/28/2012 The paper provides evidence of case law and practice highlighting how and why the protection offered by human rights ... people in the UK 1 The Human Rights Act and Older People– An Evidence Paper Background to Human Rights Legislation in the UK The modern human rights legal framework stems from the response to the atrocities
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in Wales Factsheet 37w December 2023 2 of 71 Contents 1 Information about this factsheet 5 1.1 Local Health Boards and local authority social ... information – Welsh Government’s ‘Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care’ 8 2.2 The Welsh Government’s ‘Hospital discharge guidance’ (December 2023) 10 2.3 NHS Wales guidance –
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ageing society 10 The lived experience of people with sight loss 20 The policy environment 22 Ways forward and recommendations 28 Agenda for action 29 References Dedicated to the memory of Alan Suttie, a ... a former Trustee of RNIB who passed away in 2014. Alan dedicated his life to improving the lives of blind and partially sighted people, championing the cause of older people. 4 On 22 June 2015, Age UK
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CONTENTS Foreword…..page 2 Executive summary…..page 3 Chapter One – Why will the NHS need to change?.....page 7 Chapter Two – What will the future look like? A new relationship with patients and communities… ... page 14 - The NHS as a social movement…..page 15 Chapter Three – What will the future look like? New models of care…..page 17 - Emerging models…..page 17 - One size fits all?.....page 18 - New care models…
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Hospital Care for People Living with Dementia National Assembly for Wales Cross-Party Group on Dementia April 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older ... to high quality 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
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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 thousands of older people without convenient ... This rate has accelerated in the past year, with more than 600 bank branches closing across Britain in this period. As such, Age UK have prepared this briefing as a way of supporting MPs to respond to
