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older people in Wales 2024 2 Introduction This General Election matters for older people. Worn down by the pandemic and cost of living crisis, many are yearning for a more positive future for themselves, their ... According to the 2021 Census Data, approximately 1,300,100 people who live in Wales are aged 50 or over with the overall population estimated to be around 3 million.1 This equates to 42% of the overall population
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age friendly Wales The Role of an Appropriate Individual Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) March 2020 2 3 Introduction The importance of the role of the appropriate individual is established in paragraph ... of the revised Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy)1 (“the Code”) under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (“the Act”). The role is then set out in Chapter 13 of the Code, “When is an individual
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Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). Registered address: Tavis House,1–6 Tavistock ... Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. Age UK and its subsidiary companies and charities form the Age UK Group, dedicated to helping more people love later life. ID000000 03/17 Creating a ‘Career MOT at 50’
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Public Policy Statement Safeguarding older people June 2017 Summary All older people in Wales have the right to a life free from abuse. There are ‘few more basic human rights than that of being protected ... experienced abuse or neglect. Legislation is an essential component of safeguarding adults; it has the capacity to set statutory duties and powers so that adult protection is undertaken effectively by all key
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Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee Pension freedoms inquiry October 2017 Ref: 2217 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic ... academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. Christopher Brooks, Senior Policy Manager christopher
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area The service is free, independent and confidential and we won’t pass your details to anyone else without your permission. How we provide support. Ø Telephone support. Our advice line is open Monday ... Website: There’s support available via the information and advice pages on our website: www.agecymru.org.uk/advice Ø Chatbot and Live Chat: Our automated Chatbot, Pam is available on our website to help with
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Department for Transport Accessibility Action Plan Consultation: A Transport System that is open to everyone November 2017 joe.oldman@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 is Tavis House, 1-6
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standard of living when they retire. However, currently 112,000 older people in Wales are estimated to live in poverty.1 The UK Government have been taking forward reforms to the State Pension for future ... and have the potential to improve pension coverage and incomes of older people in the future. The new State Pension was introduced in April 2016, however significant controversy remains over the communication
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Life 8 How is older people’s wellbeing across 9 the whole population? Who is struggling and who is doing well? 10 Some conclusions 12 Some questions 13 And some challenges for policymakers 13 Next steps 14 ... understand more about how well older people in the UK are doing. We need to know where and why people are not doing well to inform our work and gain an understanding of the policy and practical levers for improving
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Falls Prevention Exercise – following the evidence The evidence for falls prevention exercise and how it can be applied in practice. Expert series To explain the research base for falls prevention exercise ... exercise to give a better understanding of the programmes that have been shown to be effective in preventing falls. Clinical Commissioning Groups, Public Health professionals, commissioners of care services
