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END THE CRISIS IN CARE WE HELPED MORE THAN 65,000 OLDER PEOPLE KEEP ACTIVE AND EAT WELL THROUGH FIT AS A FIDDLE 95% OF ENGLISH POSTCODES ARE COVERED BY A LOCAL AGE UK 3 Together… Together with thousands ... amendment to the Pensions Bill – a £1.2 billion spending commitment to stop the retirement age rising as quickly as planned. We called for a simpler, fairer State Pensions and the Government plans to introduce
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defines good mental health as being able to think, feel and react in the ways that you want and need in order to live your life. Having poor mental health means finding that the ways you think, feel or react ... become difficult to cope with. Most people experience poor mental health from time to time. However, as with physical ill-health, continuously poor mental health can lead to longer-term problems. Mental
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people for treatment, describing issues as an “inevitable part of old age and not worth specialist attention”. On the other hand, when admission does occur, often as an emergency, there can be a tendency ... ensure the identification of failures in fundamentals of care – such as those found by the Andrews Report – should be in place, as should sanctions to deal with any breaches. Hospital Services Welsh
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and choice: the voice of older people – Professor John Williams Page 8 The recognition of advocacy as a means of securing and exercising older people’s rights – a personal perspective – Andrew Dunning ... and retain control of my life for as long as I possibly can.” “We cannot see what will happen in the future, whether this is losing your mobility which would make you more vulnerable and also losing your
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leave their homes in case they fall again.5 • A tailored exercise programme can reduce falls by as much as 54 per cent. 1 Royal College of Physicians. 2011. Falling Standards, broken promises: report of ... It can happen as a result of dizziness caused by different medications6 or medical conditions, such as syncope or Parkinson’s Disease. Falls can be caused by extrinsic factors such as poorly fitting footwear7
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(GTAP) support you to achieve the aspirations of the Act.K ey points that we would like to underline:T his tool is for you to use in an iterative way. It can be adapted and revisited as time passesW e ... e suggest you complete it in collaboration with your team and with partners where possibleThis tool is not designed to question you about facts and figures relating to your commissioning of advocacy services
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residents were among those most acutely impacted by daily restrictions to their lives. Projects such as Age Cymru’s Tell Me More revealed how much these restrictions had impacted upon the mental health ... often linked to bereavement too, with the person sometimes losing a caring partner or close friend, as well as their home. These changes can have an immense effect on an individual’s mental health. Over
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people, wherever they live. We are a registered charity in the United Kingdom, formed in April 2010 as the new force combining Help the Aged and Age Concern. We have almost 120 years of combined history ... pension providers to continue to drive costs down and deliver better value for money for pension savers. As the OFT concluded, competition in this particular market cannot be relied upon to deliver this.
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Frith, Martha Cleary 5 Foreword The mental health needs of older people have long been recognised as under-treated. In major equality reviews for the Department of Health; research by the Royal College ... Psychiatrists; and most recently the independent Mental Health Taskforce, older people have been identified as having had substantial gaps in their access to services. This is despite the fact that up to a quarter
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about prevention…..page 10 - Empowering patients…..page 13 - Engaging communities…..page 14 - The NHS as a social movement…..page 15 Chapter Three – What will the future look like? New models of care…..page ... commitment to universal healthcare, irrespective of age, health, race, social status or ability to pay. To high quality care for all. Our values haven’t changed, but our world has. So the NHS needs to adapt
