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celebrations are underway By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, June 2022 Welcome to the Summer edition of Age Matters. Summer is on its way and we’ve just celebrated Volunteers Week and Carers Week which ... volunteers that give their valuable time to Age Cymru and the wellbeing of older people each week. Similarly, without the vital contribution of unpaid carers in all communities across Wales our health and care
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reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy ... regulator in England and Wales, published ‘Costs and benefits of introducing competition to residential customers in England: emerging findings’. This is part of the Government’s agenda to ‘open up markets
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Advocacy Newsletter Issue No 3, May 2021 HOPE Project news A word from one of our team volunteers ‘Just browsing through Facebook one evening I stumbled across a post describing a new advocacy project ... The joy of volunteering in a global pandemic! I’ve never felt unsupported through my training and starting to support clients. Every client presents a different challenge, a different way of looking
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Centre for Policy on Ageing – Review May 2014 Changing family structures and their impact on the care of older people. Summary Families in the UK are changing. This brief review looks at how chan ... later, increased levels of marital disruption and more complex family relationships or greater geographical separation of families, may have an effect on the availability of care. • The change fa
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Page 1 of 28 Factsheet 14 Dealing with an estate August 2024 About this factsheet When a person dies, somebody else must deal with their estate, collect their money, property and possessions, pay any ... in the Useful organisations section. Age UK factsheet 14 August 2024 Dealing with an estate Page 2 of 28 Contents 1 Recent developments 4 2 Find out if there is a will 4 2.1 If there is no will 4 3 Dealing
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are critical determinants of their long-term recovery and return to a reasonable quality of life. We regularly read articles in the media about ‘bed blocking’ and hear talk of older people staying in hospital ... denying hospital care to others who are in greater need. However we do not believe that the problem of older people staying in hospital longer than is clinically necessary is anything like as simple as
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the highest of rises in earnings, prices or 2.5%. By law the basic State Pension and new State Pension have to be increased at least in line with average earnings, so given a period of low earnings ... inflation, the triple lock has made an important difference to the value of the State Pension. However, total average annual payments of State Pension still only add up to about £7,000 a year - a modest amount
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unwell. 2. Specifically a Wales ‘Ffrind mewn Angen’ ‘Friend in Need’ would be signposted to key sources of advice and support. They would have four key functions; Connect, Communicate, Coordinate and Comfort: ... health/social care worker needing to visit/have telephone contact, to assist in the future. Ensure supplies of home self-care cold and flu medicines, checking that there is no medical contraindications with prescribed
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Missed opportunities: the impact on older people of cuts to rural bus services Missed opportunities: the impact on older people of cuts to rural bus services 1 Introduction 2 Changes to Bus Services ... studies 13 Conclusion 24 Recommendation 25 Contents Missed opportunities: the impact on older people of cuts to rural bus services 2 Introduction Bus services provide a lifeline for many older people. For
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. 4 Direct measures of subjective loneliness ........................................................................................ 4 Multi-dimensional instruments to measure of loneliness ......... ... ..................................................... 5 Loneliness as part of wider well-being scales ................................................................................. 6 3 Factors associated
