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Older people are often the target of doorstep scammers. Find out how to protect yourself against the fraudsters.
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A key priority is to determine how to embed awareness of a rights based approach. Older people need to know how they can exercise their rights, and in order to do this, they need to be aware of their rights ... Plan will need to detail how a rights based approach will be implemented in practice. We welcome the improved focus on early prevention services to prevent people’s needs escalating to where they would
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Improving later life. Services for older people – what works. 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 ... the long-term interests of every one of us, so that experiences of ageing grow better for each passing generation. We are Age UK Acknowledgements: We wish to thank Professor Martin Knapp from the National
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Foundation (May 2017) Page 3 of 39 May 2017 Acknowledgements The author of this report would like to thank the British Gymnastics Foundation (in particular Patrick Bonner), the activity coach (Kim Hall) ... Down Care Centre) and older people and their friends, family and careers participating in the project who shared information for this evaluation. Author Vinal K Karania is Research Manager at Age UK with
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criteria for Pension Credit, how to make a claim, and what to do if you have a change of circumstance. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2024 to March 2025. Benefit rates are ... April, but rules and figures can sometimes change during the year. In Wales, tenants are now ‘contract-holders’ and tenancy agreements are ‘occupation contracts’. References to tenants and tenancies in this
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1 Behind the Headlines Are older people and their families really to blame when their hospital discharges are delayed? Age UK, March 2016 Contact: Ruthe Isden, Ruthe.Isden@ageuk.org ... Lowe@ageuk.org.uk 2 Behind the headlines: are older people and families really to blame when their hospital discharges are delayed? We are regularly reading articles in the media about
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aspirations of people in later life. Our vision is for a world where everyone can love later life. Age UK provides information and advice to over 5 million people each year, runs public and parliamentary campaigns ... over 450 Age UK charity shops throughout the UK and also offer a range of commercial products tailored to older people. 3 .....…………………………………………………………… .....……………………………………………………………
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landlord housing? 7 3.1 Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) 8 4 How can you get community landlord housing? 8 4.1 Being eligible to apply 10 5 Making an application 11 5.1 Help with your application 12 ... whilst you are on a waiting list 13 5.4 Can you apply to more than one local authority? 13 5.5 ‘Common housing registers’ 14 6 Local authority allocation schemes 14 6.1 Who gets priority on the list – ‘reasonable
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around the world working in areas of brain health related to human cognition. The GCBH focuses on brain health relating to people’s ability to think and reason as they age, including aspects of memory ... by AARP with 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
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moments that make a big difference to individual lives, to big moments that influence major change that benefits everyone – they all show how Age UK helps people to love later life. Our vital work is ... is shaped by five ambitions which are driven by the priorities that people in later life tell us matter to them – money, wellbeing, health and care, home and community. The moments demonstrate our work
