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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the Welsh Government’s
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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the BBC’s consultation
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An exciting new project needs your help to support older people (50+) and carers in your community.
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of the UK’s biggest banks and building societies asked Sir Richard Lambert to start a process to create a new organisation to help raise standards and competence in banking in the UK. This follows the ... welcome the creation of such a new body. More details on the background of the Banking Standards Review can be found on its website here: http://www.bankingstandardsreview.org.uk/background/. This consultation
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Consultation Response Age UK’s response to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s consultation on changes to benefit rules for temporary absence from Great Britain February 2016 ... and State Pension Credit can be paid when someone is temporarily out of Great Britain (GB). This will be reduced from 13 weeks to 4 weeks in most circumstances. The changes, due to come in on 1st April 2016
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Senedd’s Health and social Care Committee June 2022 Introduction Age Cymru welcomes the opportunity to provide further information on modernising planned care and reducing waiting times. As we have previously ... issues, older people are predominantly those most affected by delays in this area. We are very pleased to see that the plan for transforming and modernising care includes many developments that will over time
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you can claim these benefits. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2024 to March 2025. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and uprated in April but rules and figures can sometimes ... information. Contact details can be found at the back of this factsheet. Contact details for any of the organisations mentioned in this factsheet can be found in the Useful organisations section. Age
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information about the old State Pension for people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. It explains how to claim your pension and what to do if you have a change of circumstance. The information ... April 2024 to March 2025. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and uprated in April but rules and figures can sometimes change during the year. The information in this factsheet is applicable to Great Britain
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Register Review.1 It seeks views on proposals to energy companies’ priority services register (PSR) licence conditions, under which they offer free practical support to groups of customers identified as being ... circumstances. The proposals relate to energy suppliers and network operators (NOs), referred to collectively as energy companies. Age UK is the country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the
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.................................................................. 4 Multi-dimensional instruments to measure of loneliness .............................................................. 5 Loneliness as ... main form of company. 3 Loneliness can be as harmful for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.4 People with a high degree of loneliness are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as people with
