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innate value in themselves, regardless of their age or other personal characteristics. Nevertheless, it is sometimes helpful to quantify the size of the contributions that are made by older people in order to ... people bring as employees and contributors to wider society and to the economy. More people are working for longer than ever before. For some this is through choice while, for others, a combination of
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& A The following questions are based on conversations we’ve had with older people in recent months. We took the questions to BT and attached their responses underneath each question ... from contacting older people, still work after digital switchover? Call blockers will no longer be necessary following digital switchover. There will be a new in-built service called Hiya that will
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Group on Dementia April 2019 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 ... 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 to the
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branches in the last 25 years (over half of all branches across the UK), leaving hundreds of thousands of older people without convenient access to basic banking services. This rate has accelerated in the past ... 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 closures in your local area, as well as supporting services
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arts activities. Our cARTrefu artists have enabled hundreds of older people in Wales to create their own art through sessions in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Words and Music. These sessions have now been ... friendly Wales cARTrefu Creating the right space Creating the right space is important when participating in arts activities. There are simple things you can do to create the right environment for older residents
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on the range of information guides and factsheets only, which we hope will be of use to you. Nothing in this leaflet should be construed as the giving of specific advice and it should not be relied on as ... Age NI and Age Scotland 5 Free information guides 6 Age Cymru shops 7 Money matters 8 Health and wellbeing 14 Home and care 17 Work and learning 20 Travel and lifestyle 22 Free factsheets 24 4
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eligibility requirements and the amount of support you could receive. In Wales, the Council Tax Reduction scheme is broadly the same in each local council area. 3 Can I claim it? If you’re on a low income ... Pension Credit, you may get your Council Tax paid in full. • If you don’t receive Guarantee Credit but you have a low income and less than £16,000 in savings, you may still get some help. If you don’t
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Monday 31st October 2016 5pm-6pm Committee Room 21, HOC Minutes of the AGM held on 31st October 2016 in Committee Room 21, House of Commons Present: Parliamentarians: Nusrat Ghani MP, Barbara Keeley MP ... Discussion: The discussion during the second part of the meeting focused on the future work programme for the APPG. A draft work programme had previously been discussed by the group and the discussion ensured
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about enabling people with dementia access to services and support that they need and to have a voice in decisions that are being made. It is also to support them though situations where they may be abused
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reduce their risk of falling over and think about how they can age healthily and prevent falling over in their own future.
