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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the Office
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forces with Age UK to fight loneliness We’re proud that Age UK is working with Cadbury to help draw attention to the 225,000 older people who often go a whole week without speaking to anyone. Loneliness ... you see yourself. It can make you feel invisible and forgotten. Age UK and Cadbury have joined forces to do something about it. And we need your help. Age Cymru, along with our sister charities in Northern
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national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the Parliamentary
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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to Public Health
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role is then set out in Chapter 13 of the Code, “When is an individual appropriate or inappropriate to act as an advocate?” This resource reviews what the Code says about the role of the appropriate individual2 ... carers and citizens to consider. Assessing need for independent professional advocacy Chapter 8 of the Code states that independent professional advocacy under the Act “is specific to supporting an individual
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largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network comprises 140+ local Age UKs reaching most of England. We provide information and advice to around 5.9 million people ... published a consultation on ‘financial protections for vulnerable consumers’.1 To protect those consumers who are unable to engage with the two-tier energy market and so pay much higher prices, Ofgem proposes
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claimants for PIP and explains what to do for both benefits if you have a change of circumstance. If you are over State Pension age and have care needs, you may be able to claim Attendance Allowance (AA). ... Allowance, for more information. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2024 to March 2025. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and uprated in April but rules and figures can sometimes
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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... 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. We are pleased to respond to the Wales
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country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this. We help more than 5m ... progress made by the Government in delivering superfast broadband coverage (hereby referred to as ‘coverage’) and the aim to provide 95 per cent of UK premises with coverage by the end of 2017. We agree that coverage
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every 4.5 years. The UK is due to undergo its third Universal Period Review in April / May 2017. As part of the UPR process Age UK is very pleased to have this opportunity to comment on the UK Government’s ... people to the UN human rights treaty bodies. Please note this submission relates primarily to our experience in England. About Age UK Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping
