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Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered in Wales and England 6837284. Registered office address Ground Floor, Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road ... Wales Unpaid carers The person you’re supporting may be a unpaid carer for the other person/s they live with. It’s useful for you to be aware of this when you’re providing help. • A carer is anyone of any age
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State Pension age (currently 66) who have care needs. It explains what Attendance Allowance is, the eligibility criteria, and how to make a claim. It explains what to do if you have a change of circumstance ... information. In Scotland, PIP is being replaced by the Adult Disability Payment (ADP). As such, any references in this factsheet to PIP should also be taken to include ADP. The information in this factsheet
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Help them take action today Care & Repair Cymru Ask Today Does your patient have a history of falling? (If not a medical problem) • Get them to focus on why, where and what may have contributed to their ... their fall • Discuss actions they can take to reduce the risk of falling • Give them a Take Action Today information sheet Steady On A strong core and good balance can be acheived by staying active
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Information about how Income Tax is calculated.
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to connect with some of your residents to find how they are doing at the moment via zoom. Having a chat can really help wellbeing in general but we’d also like to record resident’s thoughts and feelings ... report which may help to shape future care policy. For more info email suzy.webster@agecymru.org.uk. This is the link to our pilot film taken from the voices of the residents: https://youtu.be/SdMpbCOlG2E
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narrative for co-ordinated support for older people We all like categories. They help us make sense of the world and feel more comfortable. And so we have ‘young people’; ‘middle aged people’ and ‘older people’ ... actually smaller than the similarities of shared humanity between the groups. An older person is not an alien species – simply our (former) selves grown older. Older people value today what they valued yesterday
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Understanding the 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 ... retirement incomes and tackling poverty and discrimination against those in later life in all its forms. We also speak for the long-term interests of every one of us, so that experiences of ageing grow
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• If the Government is serious about extending working lives, it must make sure that everyone who wants to and is capable of working can do so, regardless of age. This includes ensuring that the Work Programme ... • The Work Programme has been less effective at helping the over 55s than younger age groups. • However, the Work Programme is a labour market tool which can be used to correct inequalities in the labour
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