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life for diverse reasons, including retirement, bereavement, ill health, a lack of local services or transport and a poor physical environment. Some older people choose to miss out on socialising or activities ... are beyond them. This means that some people barely leave their home, resulting in chronic loneliness and what we increasingly understand to be the severe health impacts associated with this. Local services
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AgeUKIG02 Navigating later life. LGBT+. 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 ... Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide relatable examples that benefit others. Email your story to stories@ageuk.org.uk. This information guide has been prepared
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Age Cymru Summer Edition 2021 From surveys to celebrations, it’s been a busy few months at Age Cymru By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, June 2021 Welcome to our summer edition of Age Matters. After a ... summer has brought us some sunshine. It’s been a busy few months at Age Cymru and we’re delighted to be able to share with you the findings of the survey we conducted in partnership with National Pensioners’
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1 The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations were introduced in to UK law on 1 October 2006. They were aimed at securing the legal rights of older workers and engendering a cultural change towards more ... employment cycle. However, this was undermined by the Default Retirement Age – an anomaly contained within the legislation allowing employers to force people from their workforce. This briefing examines the
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draft strategy and the opportunity to comment on the proposals. As a member of the Equality and Diversity Forum, Age UK supports the response which the Forum has submitted to the Commission’s consultation ... consultation. We have some supplementary comments to make in response to the questions below. 4. Which of our litigation powers do you think might be most effective if used in partnership with you? Please give reasons
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Auditor’s Report Auditor’s report to the members of Age UK 38 Financial Statements Group statement of financial activities 40 Balance sheet 41 Group cash flow statement 42 Notes to the accounts 44 Legal and administrative ... details 80 Thank you 82 Contents Age UK, its subsidiary charities and trading companies are all dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We are national In the UK, we help over 7 million people
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people. 2 Age UK works to improve later life for the 14 million older people in the UK. We do this by addressing health inequality, reducing loneliness and isolation, improving retirement incomes and tackling ... experiences of ageing grow better for each passing generation. We are Age UK Acknowledgements: We wish to thank the following people for help with identifying and inviting authors: Professor Alan Walker, Professor
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Ageing Evidence Review This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, in order to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising ... Health Mentor) has been effective in improving healthy behaviours and reaching hard-to-reach groups, and has the potential to be sustained as a low-cost model. • There will be increasing pressure on costs
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history to draw on, we are bringing together our talents, services and solutions to do more to enrich the lives of people in later life. We have brought together leading experts in the field to create ... create this authoritative guide to ageing better. We are grateful to all the contributors who gave their time freely to make this vision a reality. Project editors: Professor James Goodwin and Phil Rossall
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www.agecymru.org.uk Welcome to our Spring Edition of Age Matters. As I’m writing this, hints of Spring are starting to show themselves with blossom on trees and bulbs starting to flower, though snow does ... we’re still encouraging people who might not have received their energy vouchers for pre-payment meters to double check and contact Age Cymru Advice for further information (see page 3). We’ve got a fantastic
