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companies that deliver nutritious frozen meals for reheating in the oven or microwave. Your local Age UK will know if voluntary groups in your area can help. Shopping online can be convenient if there aren’t ... on perishable foods, check the use-by date. If you can’t freeze it safely, think about whether you will definitely use it before it expires. If you’re recently bereaved or separated, it can be difficult
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established Women and Equalities Committee has announced its first inquiry which will focus on transgender equality. The committee will consider how far, and in what ways, trans people still have yet to achieve ... Access to gender identity services must be available to older trans people without fear that they will experience age discrimination, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. 1.3. The specific health
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adopting well-designed practice and explicit policy to support intergenerational contact. This contact will produce more benefits if it enables older and younger people to mix as equals, highlights important ... contact between younger carers and older patients or clients will also provide benefits for both. In education, promoting age diverse learning will extend working lives, and facilitate older people's ability
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such contributions a regular feature of Age Matters. I hope you enjoy this edition and perhaps it will inspire you to get active this springtime! Enjoy! Tell us what matters to you National survey of the ... Age Cymru’s fifth annual survey so we can better understand your views and current experiences. You will have noticed a copy of the survey inserted into this paper edition of Age Matters, while a pdf version
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the Payment Systems Regulator or PSR was incorporated as a subsidiary of the FCA in April 2014 and will be fully operational in April 2015. The FCA has published a call for inputs, focused especially on ... service users need and how they currently use payment systems. This will require the PSR to commission independent research. The PSR will also need strategies to ensure it engages effectively with service
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Committee is conducting an inquiry into the role councillors play in their communities. The inquiry will cover a range of aspects of a councillor's role. Age UK has a particular interest in the aspect of ... in their ward. Better council services Older people expect better council services. Councillors will be aware that care and support services have faced unprecedented challenges as a result of budget
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secondary market for annuities. It covers a range of behavioural and consumer protection issues that will apply to buyers (i.e. financial service companies) and brokers in the marketplace. Key points and ... higher proportion of claimants with mental capacity issues than in other marketplaces, because they will be dealing exclusively with the over 55s. The FCA must ensure that they are behaving appropriately
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Pension age will start to rise beyond 65 for both women and men. These changes have come about as a result of the very positive news that, on average, we are living longer. But not all of us will have a long ... Age UK will be responding to this. However, in the meantime we have published this paper which looks at the impact of rising State Pension age from the perspective of some of the individuals who will be heavily
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cheque or using credit or debit cards without your permission. Pressurising you into changing a will. Someone else taking charge of your benefits and not giving you all your money. The definition ... is: Financial or material abuse, including theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property or inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse or misappropriation of property
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around helping 50+ jobseekers get back in to employment. State Pension age rises will make this issue more acute. It will mean more people are needing to look for work until older ages, increasing the pressure ... disability will be referred after six months. There are likely to be other groups who may be eligible for early access, as under the Work Programme, which includes carers. Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches will identify
