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licence is due to expire before your 70th birthday, you’ll be issued a new licence. This new licence will be valid for 3 years, or until your 70th birthday – whichever is longer. You’ll then need to apply ... DVLA about your condition, but this usually isn’t the case. There may be changes you can make that will allow you to keep driving. Good to know. . If you develop a health condition or notice a change in
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(DoLS). Note: Access to justice and further information on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) will be covered in the Age Cymru public policy statement on ‘Safeguarding older people’. Public policy ... protections against age discrimination should be largely unaffected when the UK leaves the EU, however this will require monitoring over the coming years. The Equality Act 2010 provides a set of legislative tools
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consider how greater choice, quality, and security of housing for older people can be achieved. They will make recommendations to government during 2024. 2 Introduction This factsheet is about housing designed ... itself? Will you have a good view from your window and will it provide you with adequate privacy? 4.3 Size A smaller property is likely to be more manageable, but will you be happy with less space? Will you
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costs You remain responsible for repairing and insuring the property. The equity release provider will expect you to maintain your home to a reasonable standard. If you do not, the provider can carry ... or the cost can be added to the amount you owe. Remember maintenance costs can be high and there will still be Council Tax and other bills to pay. 3.5 Moving house You may want to move somewhere smaller
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you have a garden, is it still manageable? Accessibility. • Can you move around your home easily? • Will it still be suitable if you become less mobile in the future? • Do you have to walk up a long path ... By pressing a button on a pendant or wristband, you can contact a 24-hour response centre. Someone will then call either your chosen contact – a neighbour, relative or friend – or the emergency services
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maintains its value, and unless it is continues there is an increased risk that future pensioners will not achieve adequate retirement incomes. People currently in their late 50s and early 60s are adversely ... demographic and social changes. For example, increasing longevity, and more years spent in education, will affect the ages at which people start and end their working lives. The level and distribution of
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need. In addition, to be truly flexible, arrangements should be negotiated and implemented with the willing agreement of the employee (rather than imposed by the employer). Older workers need access to flexible ... your work and they appreciate these sort of people, and if they need any help or anything they are willing to help you, you know?” “For the whole staff he likes them to have this workload that they can
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families. We see the human cost of the failure to take action on prevention. We are determined that this will not continue. The time is now In order to achieve the goal of “25 by 25” for England, we need to start ... under. This report is just the beginning of our contribution to the debate on prevention. Next year we will publish detailed modelling on the prevalence of all conditions represented by the Richmond Group,
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social disadvantage. We make a series of recommendations to government and employers which we believe will go some way to redressing the difficulties raised, and help improve carers’ ability to remain in ... grow, the accumulated loss to our economy from them throwing in their jobs or being forced to do so will only get higher. Something has to give. At the moment too often it’s the health and finances of carers
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accountability for all aspects of the NHS in Wales. However, the actual day-to-day operation of NHS Wales will be delivered through Local Health Boards (or in some instances, NHS Trusts) – see below. Health services ... There is a two-stage system for resolving complaints about the NHS in Wales: Stage one This stage will involve a local investigation by the body concerned, using the formal complaints procedure if required
