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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 to high quality ... 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 to the consultation on a future vision for General
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approaches to encourage more pension saving A discussion paper by Age UK Using the National Institute of Economic and Social Research’s LINDA model 2 Building an income for retirement – approaches ... approaches to encourage more pension saving A discussion paper by Age UK Using the National Institute of Economic and Social Research’s LINDA model September 2014 3 Contents Executive Summary .........
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Help with NHS health costs in Wales and services which are free for older people Factsheet 61w July 2023 2 of 26 Contents 1 Information ... in all parts of the UK 4 3 Free NHS services for people who have reached a particular age 5 3.1 Free NHS services once you reach the age of 60 5 3.2 Free annual flu
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advice and advocacy 13 Complaints 13 Access to advice 16 The ‘Right to Manage’ 18 Reform of leasehold 21 Role of solicitors 23 Affordability 25 Service charges 25 Rents 27 Housing Benefit 29 Supporting ... 37 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and transgender older residents 40 Home for life 43 Security of tenure 43 Pets 43 Accessible structure 44 Space 44 Care and support 46 Safety and security 47 Wardens
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including the impact of Covid and recovery from the pandemic. We think a priority for the Committee should be to consider how the built environment post-Covid will facilitate the creation of an age friendly ... Alliance (COPA), Welsh Senate of Older People, Active Wales, National Pensioners Convention Wales, and Pensioners Forum Wales worked together to gather the experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales
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is the leading 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 to high quality ... 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 to the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales’
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Stop Falling: Start Saving Lives and Money Introduction 2 What we want to achieve 3 What is currently happening to prevent falls 4 The cost of falls 5 The experiences of people in later life 6 Advice ... prevention services 8 Examples of falls prevention services 12 Recommendations 21 Where to go for more information 22 Contents 2 Falls represent the most frequent and serious type of accident in people aged
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Spring Edition 2022 Spring 2022 – a time of achievements, challenges, and opportunities By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, March 2022 Welcome to this latest edition of Age Matters. We hope that this newsletter ... newsletter will give you a taste of some of the work we’ve been doing in communities across Wales over the last few months and bring you up to date with the issues we’ve been addressing. We’re delighted that
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Cymru provide a person centred, independent advocacy service that amplifies the voice of both older people living with memory concerns or dementia, and for those with capacity that need short term early ... to work with a broad range of advocacy needs. The projects have been managed and delivered by Age Cymru during 2020-21 have had positive outcomes, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes
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a digital world Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve ... to public services although many of the issues raised also apply to essential private services. To inform this work we have been gathering information about the impact of public services going online. We
