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London WC1H 9NA T 0800 169 80 80 F 020 3033 1000 E policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 ... providing support, companionship and advice for older people who need it most. In February we published a report entitled Older people and power loss, floods and storms: Reducing risk, building resilience,
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aimed at potential victims of abuse from the Welsh Government:4 Being pressurised to lend money to a relative or friends. Being charged excessive amounts of money for service. People frequently requesting ... your home without your consent and without a prior agreement on sharing costs. Pressurising you to sign over your house or property. Taking money, cashing a cheque or using credit or debit cards without
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people and their families became anxious. Will I be able to go out and buy food? Can I take my dog for a walk? Should I let the engineer in to repair my boiler? What can I do if my prescriptions doesn’t arrive ... People’s Commissioner, social services, older people’s groups and other charities to make sure we have a firm understanding of the situation across Wales and to make sure we are communicating the views and
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proportion of all UK countries.2 All four UK countries have seen their population growth rate slow due to a combination of higher deaths and fewer births.3 In the year to mid-2020, Wales’s population increased ... years and above, was higher in 2019 than in 2018, with the largest increase at age 99 years (62.2%), as a direct result of seasonal birth patterns after World War One In the UK, the number of male semi-supercentenarians
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needed – to improve their employment prospects. And new analysis for this report finds that caring has a statistically significant impact on employment prospects from as little as five hours care provision ... their employment prospects, which can lead to significant financial and social disadvantage. We make a series of recommendations to government and employers which we believe will go some way to redressing
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Predicting the prevalence of loneliness at older ages Iparraguirre, J Abstract This paper presents a prediction of the prevalence of loneliness among people aged 65 or over across small geographical units ... effort has been invested in estimating prevalence of loneliness among older people across small areas in a country considering that most interventions to tackle it by public and charity sector organisations
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blynyddol a gynhaliwyd ers 2020 gan Age Cymru a’r sefydliadau allweddol sy’n cynrychioli pobl hŷn yng Nghymru. Mae’n bwysig bod Llywodraeth Cymru ac eraill yn clywed gan bobl hŷn am eu profiadau a’r hyn sy’n ... ond os hoffech chi i ni gysylltu â chi ynglŷn â’r arolwg gallwch gynnwys eich manylion cyswllt ar ddiwedd y ddogfen. Diolch am eich cefnogaeth wrth gwblhau’r arolwg hwn. A. Cyfathrebiad A1. Sut ydych chi’n
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access to high quality 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 ... inclusion and digital inclusion. Banks and older people Pensioners make up one-third of adults without a basic bank account1 and 6% of households with someone aged 85+ have no bank or post office account.2
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London SW16 4ER T 020 8765 7200 F 020 8765 7211 E policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 ... including that funded by this particular budget, has a significant role to play in creating the Government’s vision of a ‘Big Society’, and has a range of benefits to individuals in later life, for example
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based on loose cultural affiliation; based on ‘belonging’ to a religion, or identifying as religious; based on believing in the core tenets of a particular religion; and based on levels of religious practice ... identified with a religion [Figure 2],in a 2014 survey, less than one third (30%) described themselves as ‘religious’ [Figure 1]. The perception is that, older people are more likely to have a religion. While
