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making Disappointingly, many older people said their local authority doesn’t engage with them when making decisions and plans affecting their local community. Some respondents told the survey that local
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.................................................................... 15 6. Impact on community engagement and partnerships ................................................ 30 7. Impact on volunteers and ... to help them train volunteers (new or existing), as well as staff, to work with specified hard to engage groups of older people in social and physical activities. This includes: those who are socially isolated
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essential if people are to work for longer. We recommend the Government focusses policy on improving engagement among older workers, whether through public or employer funded provision. o All jobs should be ... low budget. We believe it has been fairly successful in its aim of increasing awareness of and engagement in this agenda among the business community. We have noticed a clear increase in appetite among
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older co-investigators and representatives of community organisations who have been involved in the planning, design, development, and implementation phases of a research project focusing on developing age-friendly ... Manchester. Moreover, the findings of this work will play a direct role in the development of the city’s plans for the neighbourhoods in which the research has been conducted.”Paul McGarry Senior Strategy Manager
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last three years in developing this Framework to ensure that advocacy services can support people to engage actively and participate in the development and achievement of their own well-being outcomes giving ... context of Welsh Government policy, the most recent significant document being “A Healthier Wales: Our Plan for Health and Social Care”. Vision for independent professional advocacy It is important to have
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this represents an opportunity for the Government, the financial services industry, and other stakeholders to begin considering how to improve outcomes in retirement. We support a single rate of tax ... their pension last into their retirement. Reforming tax relief is not a magic bullet to enhance engagement with pension saving – to achieve this other factors also need investigating, for example ensuring
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encouraging people to think more about their care and therefore potentially improve their ability to plan. The fact that the cap would be a set amount and universal was seen as positive in light of this by ... advice at Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire’s event, especially those who may not currently be engaged with the system. In a similar vein, participants at Age UK Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin’s event
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with funding and advice to design and lead projects to improve their neighbourhoods. Local planning, regeneration and street management teams should be aware of the implications of demographic change ... the needs of older people in their ward. Also see papers on social isolation, public transport, engagement and volunteering. 1. Introduction Since Age UK’s current policy position on age friendly neighbourhoods
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networks / contacts that benefit their business and offered invitations to older people's forums and engagement events. We work with you to design data flows that meet your inhouse requirements. Local and national
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significant issues that need action from the Government, the Financial Conduct Authority and other stakeholders if pension saving is truly going to serve the interests of consumers. 2. Inquiry questions ... working and with no firm plans to retire. The research suggests there has been a “decoupling of some of the decisions consumers make about their DC pots from their retirement planning.” This presents a problem
