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Home safety checker Staying safe around the home Information and advice you need to help you love later life. We’re Age UK and our goal is to enable older people to love later life. We are passionate about ... about affirming that your later years can be fulfilling years. Whether you’re enjoying your later life or going through tough times, we’re here to help you make the best of your life. Our network includes
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The Blue Badge Scheme in Wales: Age Cymru welcomes the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee report
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Ageing Evidence Review This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, in order to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising ... 1Healthy Ageing Evidence Review Key messages 3 1 Policy context 4 2 Definition of healthy ageing 6 3 The need for healthy ageing services 8 4 What kind of factors and approaches address these issues? 14 5
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(including the provision of goods and facilities), comes into force on 1 October 2012. From this date it will be unlawful for service providers to discriminate on the basis of age unless the practice is ... covered by an exception from the ban, constitutes positive action designed to address disadvantage experienced by a particular age group or good reason can be shown for the differential treatment ('objective
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Understanding the oldest old. Project editors: Dr Susan Davidson, Professor James Goodwin, and Phil Rossall Age UK works to improve later life for the 14 million older people in the UK. We do this by ... speak for the long-term interests of every one of us, so that experiences of ageing grow better for each passing generation. Improving later life. Understanding the oldest old. 4 Welcome. Welcome to Understanding
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Cymru, along with other national charities, takes part in Free Wills Month, offering supporters the opportunity to have a will written or updated free of charge.
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Region) Location: Home based supporting the Project Officers in the South Wales Region, with occasional travel across the region as required. Key areas will be: 1. Cardiff & Vale and Morgannwg 2. Gwent ... Wales Job Purpose: To meet the HOPE project objectives by recruiting suitable volunteers within the region to deliver advocacy support at a community level and to support and oversee the establishment and
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Consultation Response Ref 1916 Department for Business Innovation & Skills call for evidence on improving the consumer landscape and quicker switching June 2016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only ... 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 for influencing or developing policy and practice. Phil
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welcome the statement by the Deputy Minister and Chief Whip, Jane Hutt AM, on advancing equality and human rights in Wales and the commitment to commence the socio-economic duty - Part 1 of the Equality ... Commencing the duty means that public bodies will be required to make decisions in a way that tackles social disadvantage. Over 100,000 pensioners are living in poverty in Wales, which has the highest proportion
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Care The meeting’s chair introduced the topic and it was highlighted that mental health problems can present themselves in various situations. Older people with mental health problems were said to be 6 times ... times more likely to be on medication but less likely to have access to talking therapies, with many receiving no help at all from the NHS. The subject was discussed within wider contexts of ageing. With
