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Dementia Friendly Wales (2017-22) March 2017 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead ... condition amongst general nursing staff, GPs and their staff, social workers and other professionals working in the health and care sector. All health and care staff should also be able to provide appropriate
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risk. The nightmare scenario is an older person alone and cut-off in a crisis – this is what we must work to avoid. The Government recognises that our changing climate poses a growing threat to particular ... Executive summary 5 Recommendations 1. Join up essential services better • The energy industry should work towards a ‘tell us once’ system in which suppliers and network operators share customer vulnerability
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would like to see greater degree of innovation in retirement income products but innovation has to work in the interests of consumers and thought also needs to be given to what the sensible defaults are ... thinking about whether they are eligible for state benefits; whether they are able or want to continue to work a bit longer; whether they should make provisions for adapting their home or longer term care needs;
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properties 14 13 Shared ownership and other options 15 Useful organisations 16 Age UK 19 Support our work 19 Age UK factsheet 2 November 2023 Buying retirement housing Page 3 of 20 1 Recent developments ... bound by its Code of Practice. You may wish to check whether there is a residents’ association that works with the management organisation to ensure residents’ views and needs are considered and addressed
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to their retirement incomes and financial resilience from working an extra year or two beyond SPA (previous PPI research has shown that working and saving for an extra two years can increase retirement ... under State Pension Age (SPA) may view themselves as already retired. In addition, leaving full time work and starting to draw down private pension income may take place at different stages of later life
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Gweithio gyda’n gilydd i helpu i ddiogelu pobl Cymru rhag sgamiau a thwyll, ac i gynorthwyo dioddefwyr. Working together to help better protect people in Wales from scams and fraud, and to support victims. Gall ... recording of scams to aid understanding of the true scale of their impact. • Develop improved joint-working and referral pathways between organisations and common support pathways for victims. 4 Enforcement
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the life course, including in older age, to ensure we stay well and healthy for longer. Age UK is working to challenge ongoing perceptions that older age automatically means poor health and higher needs ... only be acceptable to retain the threshold, even if increased, if there is a commitment to further work to establish targets that can be used to incentivise action to reduce avoidable deaths above age 85
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responsibility for action on prevention 24 Making every contact count 26 Time to act 27 References We work together as a collective voice to better influence health and social care policy, with the aim of ... of improving the care and support for the 15 million people we collectively represent. Our work is focused on five themes: • Co-ordinated care • Patients engaged in decisions about their care • Supported
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guide is about 4 The bladder and the bowel How the bladder works 6 Types of bladder problem 8 Bladder problems in men 12 How the bowel works 13 Types of bowel problem 14 Checking for bowel cancer 16 Getting ... how the bladder and the bowel work, some of the key terms we’ll be using in this guide, and some of the more common problems older people experience. How the bladder works The bladder is a muscular, balloon-shaped
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the oldest old, people with disabilities and those without digital experience gained during their working lives. Problems include: screen visibility, screen design, the behaviour of swipe screens, confusing ... Internet and mobile networks are not yet ubiquitous, fast and reliable enough to enable digital to work effectively in all places at all times. Many parts of the country outside the main metropolitan centres
