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• Scam mail responder – cheque to return • Visit to family – only recently found out • Didn’t know what to do or where to go for help • Person now in residential home • Significant amount of scam mail responded ... ‘Scams Network’: We have built up a number of contacts who we can inform via e-mail any new or live scams targeting local residents, so that they can cascade this information in the work place or via their community
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discrimination. We also provide emergency relief, supporting older people and their families during times of crises. And we influence governments and aid agencies to help change older people’s lives for ... in later life can enjoy life and feel well. We are local, national and international Your money Everyone in later life has enough money. Your health and care Everyone in later life can receive high quality
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It gives information about the eligibility criteria for Pension Credit, how to make a claim, and what to do if you have a change of circumstance. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period ... 2024 to March 2025. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and uprated in April, but rules and figures can sometimes change during the year. In Wales, tenants are now ‘contract-holders’ and tenancy agreements
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It has contributed greatly to our knowledge about how our thinking skills change with age and what we can do to protect our cognitive health in later life. As well as funding, we have worked with the researchers ... dementia. We feel that this is a good time for everyone in Age UK to catch up with the messages from the latest research on what dementia is, what it is not, and what can be done about it. We based this evidence
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responded to the consultation 5 Changing society’s attitudes to older people 6 Who we care for 8 What standards of care do older people have a right to expect? 9 ‘Always’ events – the foundations of ... older people. This was the latest in many years of reports highlighting what is wrong in the care of older people and identifying what service they have a right to expect. These reports include: • Defending
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into our ninth decade and beyond this becomes less common and more of us will need help. By the time we reach our early eighties only one in seven of us will be free of any diagnosed long term health ... reach the age of eighty five, eighty per cent of us will be living with at least two. The same pattern can be observed when it comes to care needs: by our late eighties, more than one in three of us have difficulties
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all know that life’s road isn’t always an easy one. But by working together, we can start to create a world where everyone can love later life. We are local, national and international The Age UK Group comprises ... Chief Executive Asking people to love later life is ambitious, because for many people growing older can bring challenges. But that doesn’t stop us being ourselves. We still want to laugh, love and be needed
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people living on a low income: the extent of poverty in later life, changes over time and who is at greatest risk. What do we mean by poverty? We consider people to be living in poverty when their resources ... resources are not enough to meet their basic needs and also to allow them to take part in society.i This could mean struggling to cover food and energy bills, watching every penny spent, worrying that
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(Home/Flint) but working across Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire. Contractual Status of Role: Part time, 28 hours per week, fixed term until 31st March 2025 Salary: £26,101 (FTE) Job Title of Line Manager: ... needing the service and work closely with other members of the project team to ensure a high quality, timely and responsive service is provided to all older people and carers referred to it. 5. Establish, develop
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partner office, covering the South and South East Wales Region Contractual Status of Role: Full time, 35 hours per week Fixed term until March 2025 Job Title of Line Manager: Service Manager Job titles ... Service check. The role holder will be required to provide a car for business use and some occasional travel across Wales may be required. There may be occasional requirements to work evenings and weekends
