priority. These are Age UK’s headline public policy proposals: Every local authority should be working towards achieving age friendly status – communities that offer a good quality of life to all generations ... should consider how best to take action to improve neighbourhoods for all ages. Local activists should work with the voluntary sector and community groups to challenge national and local government to listen
responsibility for action on prevention 24 Making every contact count 26 Time to act 27 References We work together as a collective voice to better influence health and social care policy, with the aim of ... of improving the care and support for the 15 million people we collectively represent. Our work is focused on five themes: • Co-ordinated care • Patients engaged in decisions about their care • Supported
oldest old. Project editors: Dr Susan Davidson, Professor James Goodwin, and Phil Rossall Age UK works to improve later life for the 14 million older people in the UK. We do this by addressing health ... Understanding the oldest old. 4 Welcome. Welcome to Understanding the oldest old. In the course of our work with people in later life, we at Age UK have become increasingly aware of the importance of the group
volunteers and older people, deliverability capacity and expertise. Young people: Experience increased work-place skills Training Material: DI/Volunteer toolkit Organisation: DI and intergenerational intervention
found on the Welsh Government’s website at: www.gov.wales/information-handling-concerns-staff-working-nhsputting-things-right Factsheet 66w August 2024 ... role of Llais can be found in section 3.7 below. 2 ‘Information on handling concerns for staff working for the NHS: Putting Things Right’, Welsh Government website: www.gov.wales/information-handling
Health and Social Care, Wales Welsh Government March 2023 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 ... Guidance on Representations made by the Citizen Voice Body’ if resourced and embedded into every day working practice will allow increased opportunities for older people to be engaged in decisions on health
employers on promoting good health could support other efforts to help people work for longer, for example the Health and Work Advisory Service. • Older workers’ health status is often the result of a ... individual’s ability to work longer. Other factors, such as caring responsibilities, may also be barriers. • Flexible working is particularly important for helping people to work longer and allowing them
practical levers might have in improving wellbeing in later life? One of the novelties of the modelling work in the 2nd and 3rd step is that it is performed on individual level data. This enables us to determine ... analyse unequal experiences of wellbeing among older people. This offers improvement over other similar work hitherto. The WILL Index calculated in the final step allows us to account for multiple indicators
practical levers might have in improving wellbeing in later life? One of the novelties of the modelling work in the 2nd and 3rd step is that it is performed on individual level data. This enables us to determine ... analyse unequal experiences of wellbeing among older people. This offers improvement over other similar work hitherto. The WILL Index calculated in the final step allows us to account for multiple indicators
particularly so as to reflect the needs of more vulnerable groups. Participants felt a great deal of work needed to be done on producing and delivering information and advice to support people to understand ... care at all, believing it to be free at the point of delivery, like the NHS. Many were shocked to learn this was not the case The view was expressed by some that the Government had been less than fully