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between 2006 and 2010, demonstrating there is much work needing to be done to help educate employers about the business case for employing people aged 50+. Figure 2, Employer views on Figure 3, ... example: “The company knows you are reliable and trusty, you never let them down, and you are sincere about your work and they appreciate these sort of people, and if they need any help or anything they are
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disadvantaged and vulnerable older people. Contents Introduction 2 Key calls for action 5 Transport 7 Health and social care 11 Fuel poverty 15 Broadband access 19 Poverty and financial exclusion 23 Loneliness ... not about special treatment for rural areas, but about understanding that policies with urban solutions will not necessarily work in rural areas with their dispersed communities. It is also about ensuring
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could particularly help in areas where public transport services are insufficient. The meeting heard about a transport scheme in North Lincolnshire that provides door-to-door support to people in need of transport ... depend on it also struggle. Older people rely on many of these community and personal services. In health and care, there could be benefits in being able to communicate over platforms rather than needing
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emergency plan – for them and all those they look after. Having a plan in place can help ease their worries if they aren’t able to care for those they look after at any point in the future. You could support ... will be able to help them and assess any social care needs they might have. For more information about the support available for unpaid carers during this time see: • Carers Wales • Carers Trust Wales
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Age-friendly banking What it is and how you do it About Age UK Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can ... and Age Scotland and around 165 local Age UK partners in England. Learn more at www.ageuk.org.uk About AARP AARP is a US-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation, with a membership of nearly 38 million
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life. We’re Age UK and our goal is to enable older people to love later life. We are passionate about affirming that your later years can be fulfilling years. Whether you’re enjoying your later life or ... 2017. © Age UK 2017 Next review date: May 2019 1 Home safety checker Contents What this guide is about 2 Fire prevention 3 Gas and solid fuel safety 6 Electrical safety 10 Preventing falls 12 Lighting
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by human operators. Careful listening and clear talking. Avoid upselling. Give appropriate advice about scams and fraud. Focus on providing the solution sought by the customer. Branches, cards, machines ... systems. Improve education about the risk of fraud, including at the time of a suspect transaction. Use short payment delays to allow customers time to have ‘second thoughts’ about scam payments. Innovation
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Age UKs are active in supporting and advising older people and their families in the care market. About this consultation This consultation, issued jointly by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and NHS ... main ways of achieving this (for acute trusts initially): 3 Firstly, by adding a sixth question about use of resources to the five key questions that CQC currently considers to determine an overall trust-level
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number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation In October the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a call for ... key points is that the Government must tackle the barriers to switching. These include perceptions about the difficulty of the switching process, and difficulties comparing prices and product/service terms
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the Strategy’s focus on providing customers with more control over payments and more information about payments. Payee identification is particularly important in relation to reducing scams and fraud. ... scammers out of the system’4 and that there should be enhanced and better placed education and warnings about scams and fraud. This is a priority area of activity, particularly in light of the recently released
