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Contact details for our dementia advocacy team
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Name: ________________________________________________________________________ I am living / working in [name of care home]: ________________________________________________________________________ ... Do you have a diagnosis of dementia? • Yes • No If you are a staff member working in a care home: How long have you worked here? __________________________________________________________________________
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The Family Resources Survey estimates that around 7% of children are disabled, compared to 16% of working age adults and 42% of adults over State Pension age.3 Using FRS measures, in 2013/14, at age 60-64 ... the non-frail individuals.4 For older people with a disability, there is a significant difference in work and life experience between disabled people who have grown older with their disability and older people
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preventative approach to health, local NHS and care support services working together, hospitals working together and sharing ideas and ways of working. She also outlined the Greater Manchester Dementia United ... United programme which focused on older people. Cllr Ford explained that the LGA had recently worked with partners including NHS England and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to publish
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and social enterprise working to transform later life in the UK and overseas. Our vision is of a world in which older people flourish. Together with over 160 local Age UKs, we work alongside national and ... challenges which we believe need to be urgently addressed and asks how the local public sector can work with local older people and other partners to find the solutions needed to improve later life for
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Name: ________________________________________________________________________ I am living / working in [name of care home] :________________________________________________________________________ ... home: Do you have a diagnosis of dementia? Yes No If you are a staff member working in a care home: How long have you worked here? __________________________________________________________________________
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derivation of the ‘lump of labour fallacy’, which refutes the idea that there is only a fixed amount of work in the economy to be shared out. This briefing examines the evidence on this topic, demonstrates that ... that the ‘job blocking’ notion is incorrect and therefore that policy efforts to extend working lives will have no adverse effect at the other end of the age spectrum. The purpose of this paper is to
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physically demanding situations, for example on a factory production line, age is no barrier to working productively. Measuring individual productivity is challenging for researchers. Older studies ... evidence of a substantive decline in ability in most people until well past the end of a typical working life. Ageing affects everyone differently, and it is not possible to make predictions about any one
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lessons that can be taken from the two pilot areas. These lessons are based on what has worked well and what has not worked well; it is not simply a representation of issues within the pilots. Application ... viewed the same as an application. The former may be viewed as a set of ideas and the latter as a worked through plan for delivery whose resource implications have been thought through. The team that
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fact the business case is clear that job security is important for individual employees, helping them work more productively. • Removing dismissal protection could undermine the abolition of the Default Retirement ... No fault dismissal would only serve to create a two-tier workforce where people were unwilling to work for micro-employers; and where reduced job security had a negative impact on employees’ health and
