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encourages people to suggest their favourite poems, as well as creating 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 ... pick a line and read it out • Now make a poem or verse starting with this line of poetry It can be scary looking at a blank page and trying to write a poem. This exercise gives people a good starting
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Frailty: Language and Perceptions A report prepared by BritainThinks on behalf of Age UK and the British Geriatrics Society June 2015 2 Contents 1. Background ... Background 3 2. Executive Summary 7 3. Responses to the language of frailty 10 4. Articulating the concept of frailty 14 5. Attitudes to support to prevent and manage frailty 19 6. Appendix 26 3 1
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Someone’s age bears no relation to their ability or capability to perform the vast majority of jobs. The evidence shows either a lack of relationship between productivity and age, or that older workers are ... Even in physically demanding situations, for example on a factory production line, age is no barrier to working productively. Measuring individual productivity is challenging for researchers. Older studies
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working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity ... opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. Introduction We are pleased to respond to the
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Technology Together - Participants Survey – Summary Findings Older people sample = 41 Paper survey and phone interviews conducted with older people Younger people sample = 26 Online survey conducted with ... Younger survey respondents 11 out of 41 respondents wanted to learn how to use a computer or laptop 8 respondents wanted to learn to do more with their computer or laptop 10 respondents identified
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Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered in Wales and England 6837284. Registered office address Ground Floor, Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road ... important service to support people to have their voices heard, their wishes respected and to feel equal in relationships with others so that they can feel empowered to speak up and be involved based on
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Places Making our community a great place to grow older 2 3 As we all live longer, more of us will need to get out and about as consumers, to volunteer, to work and as care givers. We will need to ensure ... significantly underprepared to manage the challenges and unlock the potential of our ageing population. In a significantly challenging financial context for local government, service providers and the communities
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1 Project 360° grant programme 2019 – 2020 Application and Delivery Guidelines About these guidelines Read these notes carefully before you complete the online ‘GIFTS Request Form’. Should you have ... applications so please ensure you submit your application on time. Contents Section 1: Background to the funding 2 Section 2: Aim of the programme 2-3 Section 3: Identified
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...................................................................................... 14 3. Aims and objectives ....................................................................................... ... Comments: To becky.gulc@qaresearch.co.uk & kay.silversides@qaresearch.co.uk ‘Pressing the Right Buttons’, May 2013 Page 3 Acknowledgements Qa Research would like to express appreciation to the many
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1 Public Policy Statement Discrimination and Human Rights August 2016 Summary Negative attitudes towards older people and ageing are pervasive in our society. In common with most other forms of discrimination ... discrimination, ageism is based on inaccurate stereotypes, and often in the case of older people, assumptions about a person’s ability and competence due to their age. An effect of ageism is that older people
