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Finance Committee January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy ... levels of pay. 18. A core element of both recruiting and retaining domiciliary care workers is to 5 improve the terms and conditions relating to the role, to make the job both more attractive and also more
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Finance Committee January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy ... levels of pay. 18. A core element of both recruiting and retaining domiciliary care workers is to 5 improve the terms and conditions relating to the role, to make the job both more attractive and also more
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Carers Week 2020, will look to improve services and support for older carers, carers of people living with dementia, and carers of people who have moved to live in a care home. Over three years this project ... shape the services affecting both themselves and the people for whom they provide care, as well as improve carers’ access to information, advice and support. Age Cymru’s Chief Executive Victoria Lloyd says:
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Later life in rural England Age UK is a charity that aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research. In the UK we work ... examples of creative practice from local Age UKs that are succeeding in mobilising community effort to improve life for older people. These examples demonstrate how resourceful many rural communities are. Across
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households where neither partner was in work because one was retired and the other was looking after the home and family (34 per cent). • Low income households that remained poor after reaching state pension ... Looking after home Other not working Both working 1 working, 1 disabled 1 working, 1 looking after home 1 working, 1 not working Both not working 1 disabled, 1 not working 1 looking after home, 1 not working
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Commission and has said that it will publish a ‘re-focused Carers’ Strategy’ in April 2011 and plans to ‘improve access to respite care by using direct payments to carers and better community-based provision’. ... should be transferred from protected NHS spending if necessary. As soon as the economic situation improves, funding should be increased. Cutting support for carers is inhumane and counter-productive. We
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support from Age UK to offer the best possible advice about what older adults can do to maintain and improve their brain health. GCBH members come together to discuss specific lifestyle issue areas that may ... practical tips based upon the experts’ experience of how to help adults age 50-plus maintain and improve their sleep over their lifespans. This paper summarizes the consensus reached by the experts and
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We do not believe it is necessary or desirable to combine saving for later life and buying a first home. The timescales for saving and appetite for risk are so different for the two objectives that it would ... withdrawal were broadened to include other issues, for example having a first child or buying a second home, then the relative attractiveness compared to pensions would significantly increase, which could serve
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to see the new UK Government tackle, from pensioner poverty to digital exclusion and from keeping homes warm to bank closures. Many of these issues were raised in our 2024 What matters to you survey which ... areas: • Improving older people’s rights and tackling ageism • Tackling pensioner poverty • Managing money • Consumer protection • Digital exclusion • Keeping warm at home • Welsh language
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We believe that loneliness and isolation should be addressed as priority public health issues to improve the health and wellbeing of Wales. As part of our campaign, and in tribute to the late Jo Cox MP ... at the reasons for loneliness and explore a broad range of possible approaches to reducing it to improve wellbeing and quality of life. In our opening article Christopher Williams of Age Cymru relates the
