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Welsh Government recently consulted on the development of a new national mental health strategy, which will build on the work of the previous ‘Together for Mental Health’ and the ‘Talk to Me 2’ strategies.17 ... recommendations for addressing the future mental health needs of older people. These recommendations were formed and underpinned by several key findings including: • A recognition that older people’s access to
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as well as the many more that experience cognitive decline. Without such an approach, many services will remain inaccessible to the people that could most benefit from them. 6 Name: Léa Renoux Organisation: ... (see comment below).Such vital services provide a link to the community and act as gateway to other forms of valuable support. It is therefore important to recognise the contribution of the voluntary sector
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introduced in April 2016. These include how Local Authorities will calculate and meter someone’s contribution towards their care costs, the ways people will be able to keep track of their progress towards the cap ... cap, an increase in the means test capital limits and how the level of the cap will be regularly uprated. Key points and recommendations Age UK welcomes the Government’s intention to introduce the cap
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workers to remain in the labour market.3 When discussing the ‘recently retired’ this briefing note will typically focus on those groups within 10 years of reaching SPA (currently 61 and over for women, ... approaching SPA will experience a diverse range of circumstances across a range of areas including wealth, income, employment, family circumstances and housing tenure. These factors will all interact to
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of being able to complete everyday tasks independently § While older people tend to accept that it will become harder to complete these tasks as they get older, as the ability to do these things without ... is that to encourage older people to engage with preventative strategies and frailty services, it will be important to: o Build on existing beliefs that ‘living with frailty’ is not an inevitable or irreversible
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jobs and homes to allow young people and families to live there too. Only if all of this happens, will rural England be a place where all older people can thrive. Overall, rural communities are growing ... report we use the Government’s Rural/Urban definition, which states that rural areas are any areas forming settlements with populations of less than 10,000 people.1 THE OVER 85 AgE grOUP IS SET TO INCREASE
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accessible to older people. Without these, there is an increased risk that isolation and loneliness will impact upon people’s well-being. It is essential that older people in all areas have the means to ... of loneliness on health and wellbeing, that the withdrawal of opportunities for social interaction will increase pressure on NHS services. The Welsh Government must identify ways to encourage and develop
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proportion of workers aged 50 and over using some form of flexible working rose from 30% to 38% between 2005 and 2010.14 As the workforce ages more people will need to use differentiated working patterns, ... adequately, and only a third realised this before retirement, while more than two-fifths do not think they will ever make up this shortfall.18 A key contributor to this lack of readiness is inadequate pension
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and we fight discrimination wherever we find it. We are here for older people when they need us and will continue to be here. Improving older people’s rights and tackling ageism Ageism is endemic in our ... publicity and more fundamental changes so there is less reliance on older people having to fill in long forms and navigate complicated systems for their entitlements • Ensure benefits are sufficient to cover
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touched older people’s lives, what are the questions that older people have raised with us, and what will be Age UK’s priorities, as the policy agenda develops, to ensure a better later life for everyone ... secondary legislation, which is devolved. 2. Equality and Human Rights A major area of focus for Age UK will be to ensure that older people’s position is strengthened, not weakened, by any possible changes to
