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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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Date: 8 November 2012 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained ... 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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of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system in Wales 5 3 Background – obtaining help from your local authority and the financial ... Information specific to temporary care home stays 7 3.4 Local authority duties in regard to information & advice and advocacy 7 4 Specific charging rules where it is decided that care will
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helping older people to maintain independence and well-being. Such transport networks can ensure communities are wellconnected and that services, facilities and amenities are accessible to older people. Without ... Without these, there is an increased risk that isolation and loneliness will impact upon people’s wellbeing. It is essential that older people in all areas have the means to get out to buy food, get medical
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www.agecymru.org.uk Welcome to our Spring Edition of Age Matters. As I’m writing this, hints of Spring are starting to show themselves with blossom on trees and bulbs starting to flower, though snow does ... we’re still encouraging people who might not have received their energy vouchers for pre-payment meters to double check and contact Age Cymru Advice for further information (see page 3). We’ve got a fantastic
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Data collection 8 Views of older people 9 Unpaid carers 10 Waits for assessments 11 Waits for care to be in place 13 Local authority improvement measures 16 Communications 17 5. Addressing the issues 18 ... guidance 35 Acknowledgements Age Cymru would like to thank all the people that spoke to us about their experiences of access to social care. We’re grateful to the 11 social care leads, local authority commissioning
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Care & Repair Cymru A Top Tips Falls Guide for Carers It is often family or informal carers that will come across older or vulnerable people at risk of a fall or having already fallen. Their assistance ... Older fallers are amongst the top three reasons why an ambulance is called. • • If you’ve fallen once, you are 50% more likely to fall again, with an escalating risk of injury. • • A ‘long lie’
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more than 21 per cent of older people over 55 have no housing wealth at all2. This percentage is likely to grow as increasing numbers of older people find themselves living in rented property. Around ... Those owning outright will continue to rise from 32% in 2014 to 35% by 20254 according to projections. Despite this, in the longer term, homeownership is likely to decline for future generations as the
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1 Diversity in older people and access to services – an evidence review By: Jo Moriarty and Jill Manthorpe A report of research carried out by the Social Care Workforce Research Unit ... London www.ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this report or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained
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from your local authority towards care home costs 14 4.1 Assessment of needs and eligibility for services 14 4.2 Paying for care home placements to meet your ... towards care home fees – how your capital and savings are viewed 17 6.1 Capital held in the value of your home 18 6.2 Disregarded capital 21 6.3 Jointly held capital 22
