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used as a means of ending employment relationships. The agreements will allow employers and employees to negotitate the terms of exit, often by-passing other processes for dismissal. Included is a draft statutory ... older workers to leave their organisation because of their age alone. • This could legitimise age discrimination via the backdoor, which would be a significant backwards step in efforts to combat ageism
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feelings respected and taken into consideration are vitally important to all of us. It is essential that older people feel empowered to speak up about their own choices and views. Voice, choice and control ... support to make informed decisions, particularly in situations within which they are vulnerable.1 Older people have told us: “Voice – to be able to have my voice heard.” “Choice – to be able to choose the
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2021 1. Introduction Tell Me More is an engagement project which aims to gather insights into the lived experience of care home residents during the Covid-19 pandemic and is funded by Welsh Government ... that featured in the conversations we had with people living in care homes during 2021, one of the most challenging times that care homes have experienced as a result of the global pandemic. The report
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defined as needing to spend 10 per cent or more of household income on fuel to maintain a heating regime adequate to safeguard comfort and health. Around 291,000 households were estimated to be in fuel poverty ... poverty in 2016, equivalent to 23% of households in Wales1. This represents a 7% decrease since 2012. Older people are the group most likely to suffer from fuel poverty. On average there are around 1,600
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qualify? 10 5.2 How to apply? 13 5.3 When will you know the result of your application? 14 5.4 Full or partial help with health costs 14 5.5 Refunds for treatment received prior to making ... an application to the NHS Low Income Scheme 14 6 Proving your entitlement to help with health costs – either if you receive Pension Credit Guarantee
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as a public health priority and we want local authorities to take the following steps: • Create safe, accessible built environments with places to meet that are easily accessible by integrated local public ... identifying and developing solutions to isolation; • Work with housing, transport, health, care, voluntary sector organisations and GPs to deliver practical and emotional help to tackle loneliness; • Provide services
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Wales Experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales during the winter Covid-19 lockdown, and the road to recovery Survey Results May 2021 Contents Page 1. About this research 3 2. Accessing information about ... Care services 10 7. Easing of lockdown 18 8. Challenges of moving out of lockdown 19 9. Support needed to engage in local community as lockdown eases 23 2 Experiences of Covid Survey Results May 2021
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winter warmth services Impact report 2011–2014 21 Age UK’s winter warmth servicesExposure to the cold can have a devastating impact on the health of older people. Every winter 25,000i older people die ... cold weather morbidity is preventable and a result of thermally inefficient houses that are difficult to keep warm.ii Cold weather causes a massive spike in associated health problems; it increases the
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Sarah Champion MP, Alan Whitehead MP, Alan Mak MP Introduction: Baroness Jolly welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained the running order. Guest Speakers: Baroness Jolly introduced the first speaker ... burden, were the glue that holds communities together and that Local Government was ideally placed to work with older people. She explained that the LGA were calling for more wellbeing and prevention
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increases to the basic State Pension and the new State Pension in line with the highest of rises in earnings, prices or 2.5%. By law the basic State Pension and new State Pension have to be increased ... important difference to the value of the State Pension. However, total average annual payments of State Pension still only add up to about £7,000 a year - a modest amount equivalent to only about half the
