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guidance on recruiting and managing older workers: Guidance: Help and Support for Older Workers, Department for Work and Pensions (2015) www.gov.uk Employing Older Workers: An employer’s guide to multi-generational ... Department for Work and Pensions (2013) www.gov.uk DWP Employer Toolkit: Guidance for Managers of Older Workers, Age Action Alliance www.ageactionalliance.org Age UK: www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-news or www
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service that is designed to help people who have support needs to live well1 and remain independent for as long as possible. An ageing population and increasing numbers of people with complex long-term health ... continue in coming decades. The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to increase by 292,000 (44 per cent) between 2014 and 2039, whilst the number of people aged between 16 – 64 is projected to decrease
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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 people aged 55 and over. We continue to hear from older people about worrying delays in getting social care assessments and delays in getting care in place. We’re hearing from more older people who ... projections means greater and quicker change is needed. 3. Communication from social services with older people and their families on first point of contact and whilst waiting for assessment or for care packages
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and healthy later life. Changing people’s perceptions of poor health as an inevitable part of ageing is key to inspiring healthy lifestyles and active ageing. Older people are more likely to respond positively ... requires a real shift in the NHS towards shared-decision making and supporting people to self-manage. Because older people are already in frequent contact with the NHS, there is a real opportunity to communicate
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accessible to people with dementia Introduction We wrote this guide to offer guidance and inspiration to any local Age UK that wants to make mainstream services more accessible to people with dementia ... guide considers different ways that local Age UKs can make their mainstream services more friendly to people living with dementia. It is based on our experience of working with more than 70 local Age UKs from
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agecymru.org.uk facebook.com/ twitter.com/agecymru Still not enough protection for older people! Scams and swindles Registered charity 1128436 2 Creating an age friendly Wales Inside: what ... No Cold Calling Zones? Misleading or dishonest? 8 Direct marketing messaging How we are helping people 9 with dementia and their carers to beat scammers Nuisance calls – action at last 10 Online threats
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Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge Sujata Ray at Age UK for her feedback and guidance during the development of this report. CONTENTS 1 Executive Summary ................................. ... negative effects for older and younger people, and for society as a whole. For the first time, this review by Drury et al pulls together the peer-reviewed research on contact between people of different generations
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2012, the Care Bill has addressed some of our concerns about the framework for care and support of older people1. In addition, the Government has committed to transferring £3.8 billion from the NHS for joint ... demographics. Despite rising demand for social care services, the funding, and subsequent number of people in receipt of this care, is declining. Without substantial growth in the overall funding envelope
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rather than representativeness which is the preserve of quantitative research methods. The sample of people or situations required for qualitative research methods is therefore small in number (relative to ... to the sample required for quantitative research methods) but includes the widest range of people or situations (rather than being representative). The approach of qualitative research methods involves
