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Pension Credit is a benefit for people over State Pension age. It tops up your income if you're struggling to make ends meet. Pension Credit comes in two parts: Guarantee Credit tops up your weekly income ... income to a guaranteed minimum level. For the financial year April 2024 to March 2025 this is: £218.15 if you’re single. £332.95 if you’re a couple. Savings Credit is extra money
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supporting connect with support groups that are relevant to them. This could help them get support for a health condition or help them connect with people from a similar background to them to combat isolation ... Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Connect, from Alzheimer’s Society, is a personalised support service for people with dementia, their carers, families and friends. The service connects people affected by dementia
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Creating an age friendly Wales Advocacy Counts 5 A review of advocacy services for older people in Wales November 2016 1 1. Contents 1. Contents 2 2. Acknowledgements 3 3. Executive Summary 4 4. Introduction ... 16 Regulation of Social Care Act (2016) 16 National Outcomes Framework for Advocacy 18 Useful reports and documents 19 7. Analysis 21 Advocacy services funded specifically for older people in Wales 21
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want the best possible later life for our families, our friends and ourselves. With your help, we can change lives. Together. Money matters 4 Health & wellbeing 8 Home & care 14 Travel & lifestyle 18 Work ... supporters, volunteers and staff we help make later life better for millions of people. 1 Money matters Health & wellbeing Home & care Travel & lifestyle Work & learning Closer to home Around the world
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people. We stand up and speak for all those who have reached later life, and also protect the long-term interests of future generations. Poverty remains the reality of life for many older people, and whilst ... older people in poverty has decreased in recent years however income poverty remains a critical issue for hundreds of thousands of pensioners. There are 1.6 million pensioners living in poverty in the UK and
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Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) for the work it delivers through projects such as HOPE and Dementia Advocacy. The QPM is the UK’s only independent quality performance mark for organisations like ... like Age Cymru offering independent advocacy; an essential service for people who need support to express their needs and have increased choice and control in their lives. To gain the QPM, the charity’s
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right to be treated with respect by society. The Equality Act 2010 provides a set of legislative tools for tackling age discrimination both within the area of employment and in the provision of goods and services ... goods and services has the potential to improve the lives of older people are in health and social care. The financial services sector, however, has been largely exempted from the ban. The Equality Act
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Contact: joe.oldman@ageuk.org.uk 1 1. Introduction The media often reports high figures for the amount of housing wealth owned by older people, with one estimate putting the figure at £1.28 trillion1 ... 20254 according to projections. Despite this, in the longer term, homeownership is likely to decline for future generations as the private rented sector continues to expand. 1.1. Trends in private renting
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Planning for the end of your life is a very sensitive and personal experience. It’s important you do what feels right for you, when it feels right. But being well informed can help you feel more in ... as you feel comfortable with. And if you don't want to talk, that's OK too. Contact Dying Matters for leaflets on how to start conversations about dying, death and bereavement If you have been diagnosed
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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 to give a better ... preventing falls. Clinical Commissioning Groups, Public Health professionals, commissioners of care services, health and care service providers, local Age UKs and other voluntary sector providers. Falls Prevention
