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financial abuse of older people. It does not cover commercial abuse (scams) in any detail, nor the abuse of younger people. In particular, it aims to provide the best available answers to the following ... exploitation or use of funds or other resources of the older person.’1 Similar wording was used in most reports read in this review; for example: ‘Financial abuse was defined as "the unauthorised and improper
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What matters to you? Current experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales August 2024 Contents About this research 3 Current experiences of people aged 50 or over 4 Access to healthcare 4 • Getting ... and appointments 9 • Access to treatment and ongoing checks 10 • Access to surgical procedures and in-patient care 11 • Access to dental services 12 Accessing social care 13 • Challenges - those needing
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Salford, South Tyneside and Wirral), the Technology Together project team (in particular Sarah Stott) and older people participating in the project who shared information for this evaluation. The author would ... Titilope Adekunle (Research Assistant at Age UK) for supporting the author in carrying out interviews with older people participating in the project. Author Vinal K Karania is Research Manager at Age UK
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and care 44 6 Safe at home 56 7 Active communities 66 Notes 76 2 3 Our partners Age UK works with partners in the UK and across the world. Our network includes the three national charities Age Cymru ... our partner Age International assists more than one million older people in over 40 developing countries. The challenges spelt out in this report are principally for the UK Government and Parliament. For
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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 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address ... Age UK Age UK is a charity and a social enterprise driven by the needs and aspirations of people in later life. Our vision is a world where everyone can love later life and our mission is to help people
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Trustees and Annual Accounts 2016/17 Report of Trustees and Annual Accounts 2016/17 3 Overview How we work 4 Message from our Chairman 6 Message from our Chief Executive 8 Trustees’ Report How we raised our ... life. We are national In the UK, we help over 7 million people every year, providing support, companionship and advice for the older people who need it most. We are local We work as part of a network of
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Welsh Government May 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the
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how we wanted to refer to it was an early challenge in pulling together this research with Ipsos MORI. For the older people that participated in this work, it was not a word they associated with themselves ... themselves. They all, however, had an idea of what it meant in others. We use it here to capture a range of needs, typically underscored by reduced or reducing physical capacity. Perhaps more significantly, we
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for carers 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining our Readers’ Panel. You don’t need any specialist knowledge at all. ... www.ageuk.org.uk/readers-panel. 2) Tell us your story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide
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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 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address ... areas of England. In 2015-16, nearly 5.9 million people were helped by Age UK and our local partners with information and advice on a range of issues influencing later life. We also work closely with our
