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Method 9 4. Findings 10 • Issues with data collection 10 • Waiting for care 11 • Addressing the issues 14 • Support whilst waiting for care 18 • Support from the third sector 20 Conclusions 22 Recommendations ... Recommendations 24 References 27 Tables Table 1 Time from a request for a care assessment and the assessment being completed 19/20 and 20/21 11 Table 2: Percentage completed assessments from referrals
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Age UK briefing for MPs – Excess Winter Deaths June 2016 Over the last ten years a shocking quarter of a million older people have died from the cold –1 older person every 7 minutes and at the root of ... ECO and the Green Deal from their launch in 2013 to Match 2016 Recommendations Age UK is calling for the Government to: reform its energy efficiency programmes make energy efficiency a national infrastructure
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navigate shops and other businesses. This results in exclusion and frustration for many people, and wasted opportunities for businesses. Age UK is the UK’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone ... experiences and tips for businesses to better include and support older customers. Improved practice by businesses is a win-win. 3 Contents 1. Understanding ‘older’ consumers 4 Top tips for age-friendly businesses
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(GTAP), Age Cymru has recently completed Advocacy Counts 6, the 6th report on advocacy provision for adults in Wales with a particular emphasis on older people. Over the last 12 years Age Cymru has ... 2016 There has been a 32% drop in the number of advocacy services (from 19 to 13) specifically for older people. There has been a small decrease in services providing advocacy to a wider client group
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changes the way that couples are treated within the benefits system when one is over the qualifying age for Pension Credit and the other younger. In the future, couples in this situation could receive much lower ... more on their retirement savings to support a younger partner who is unable to work. Carers and people with limited capacity to work who have an older partner will receive additional elements in Universal
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Information, advice and advocacy March 2015 Summary Good quality information and advice is essential for older people. Relevant and appropriate information and advice helps us to make informed decisions, ... to make choices, secure their rights and act in their own interests1 Advocacy can be defined as: . For example, older people may require information and advice with regard to benefit entitlements, housing
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These are generally well written and presented although we would like to see more detailed information for some specific groups, and materials aimed at advisers. In addition to web based information there ... highlight other support that may available. But for many who are not in the new system it is the policy not the communications that is their concern. Groups who may have planned their retirement income based
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supplementary guidance to Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act – Code of Guidance for Local Authorities on the Allocation of Accommodation and ... The meaning of homelessness 10 3.2 Threatened with homelessness within 56 days 11 3.3 Eligibility for help from the local authority 11 4 Common causes of homelessness and some actions
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data collection 12 Nature of calls to Age Cymru advice 13 Waits for assessments 15 Conversions from requests into a care plan 18 Waits for care to be in place 19 Communications 21 5. Addressing the issues ... issues 22 How local authorities are reducing waiting lists 22 Support for unpaid carers 23 Domiciliary care 25 Day centre changes 28 Increasing community resilience 29 6. Conclusions 30 7. Recommendations
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quality services 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. 2. We welcome ... will need help. Increasing numbers of those providing care are themselves older people. The peak age for caring in the UK is estimated to be between 50 and 59 and the number of those aged 65 or over providing
