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Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) is a benefit for homeowners which helps pay towards the interest on a mortgage or home improvement loans. The benefit will be replaced by a loan in 2018. Find out more on this
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From a punk-rocker to a mountain-sheep-farmer and wild swimmers to allotment keepers — a thought-provoking photography exhibition which aims to break down negative stereotypes of older people.
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Different activities bring a different range of benefits, so try a variety of things. Finding something you enjoy means you’re more likely to do it regularly.
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Advice on how find a good care home, how to pay for residential care, and what to consider before you move into a care home.
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Assist and Connect is a community based, face to face support service where volunteers are matched with a member of their community who requires support.
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Ageism, discrimination based on a person’s age, has a dramatic‚ detrimental effect on older people but this is often not acknowledged.
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Nearly half of people in the UK have been targeted by a scam. One of the ways that scammers commonly contact people is through the post. Learn how to protect yourself from postal scams.
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something new from them. • Write down a well-known poem • Cut out each line • Put each line in a hat or bag • Ask someone to randomly pick a line and read it out • Now make a poem or verse starting with ... looking at a blank page and trying to write a poem. This exercise gives people a good starting point to work from. 1 Creating an age friendly Wales Words Birds Birds can be a great theme for a creative
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LIFT Low Impact Functional Training. A seated and standing exercise programme designed specifically for older people.
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We work with a number of national older people’s organisations.
