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Introduction Age Cymru 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 ... 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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for services in many sheltered schemes have increased or have been withdrawn. This has meant more older residents opting out of preventative support services - which were previously a core part of their ... For others, extra care housing provides a positive alternative to residential care and offers older people greater control over the delivery of care and support services. A review of the costs specialist
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Stories from older people as co-investigators With contributions from Julie Asumu, Rebecca Bromley, Roger Bysouth, Angela Downing, Joan Gem, Tony Goulding, Freddi Greenmantle, Helen Hibberd, Raj Kaur, ... Age-Friendly Communities Stories from older people as co-investigators Researching Age-Friendly Communities ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This guide to working with older people as co-researchers has been produced in
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home 37 9.1 Pension Credit 37 9.2 Disability-related benefits 39 10 A ‘Minimum Income Amount’ for people in care homes who are receiving local authority assistance towards the fees ... someone to deal with your financial affairs and/or welfare decisions 60 18 Acting on behalf of an older person who lives in a care home 61 18.1 As an attorney appointed via a Lasting Power of Attorney 61
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Improving later life. Services for older people – what works. Age UK works to improve later life for the 14 million older people in the UK. We do this by addressing health inequality, reducing loneliness ... Professor James Goodwin Improving later life. Services for older people – what works. 4 Welcome As a major provider of services to older people, Age UK is deeply interested in what research tells us is
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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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UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life is a summary measure that provides information on how well older people aged 60 and over in the UK are doing in life. It provides an average wellbeing score of between ... does it tell us? The Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life tells us: what is important to older people’s wellbeing (there are 40 indicators) and which of these is more or less important (with participation
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home care, care homes and respite services, all of which are disproportionately relied upon by older people. The complexity of the mixture of public, private and third sector care services means that change ... for older people has often resulted in poor terms and conditions for carer workers, a lack of resourcing with which to support carer staff in their role and a lack of continuity of care for older people
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includes around 140 local Age UKs reaching most areas of England. In 2015-16, nearly 5.9 million people were helped by Age UK and our local partners with information and advice on a range of issues influencing ... response to the House of Lords select committee report ‘The Equality Act 2010: the impact on disabled people’. This highlighted areas of concern on accessible transport, where there’s been poor progress or
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November 2018 Age Cymru 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 ... 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. The Golden Thread Advocacy
