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The Equality Act is a law which protects you from discrimination, meaning that discrimination or unfair treatment on the basis of certain personal characteristics, such as age, is against the law in almost
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Age Cymru is the largest charity working with and for older people in Wales. Our vision is a society which offers all people in Wales the best experience of later life.
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into a defined contribution pension scheme during your working life, you need to decide what to do with the money you've saved towards your pension when you retire. Your pension pot is the ... doesn’t include your State Pension which is provided by the government. Your fund should send you a pension statement once a year that tells you how much your pension pot is worth, or there may be an option to
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water supplier. Water companies offer a variety of discount schemes for certain customers. Most water companies have a social tariff scheme for customers on low incomes or who are receiving certain benefits ... such as Dŵr Cymru's HelpU tariff. If you have a water meter and you receive certain benefits (e.g. Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Pension Credit, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance), you
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit for people aged between 16 and 64 who because of long-term illness or disability.
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Loneliness is a crisis in the UK. Being lonely affects your health, your wellbeing and the way you see yourself. It can make you feel invisible and forgotten.
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The 17 February is random acts of kindness day. Why not carry out an act of kindness and make someone's day a little brighter.
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Age Cymru is working in partnership with Age Connects Wales and Care & Repair Cymru to lead a public awareness campaign all about falls.
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What next for generation R? Provocation to AgeUK’s financial services commission Giselle Cory, Resolution Foundation Older people (here defined as 50 to 64 year olds) are seen as a lucky generation: ... onto the housing ladder in time to benefit from steep house price increases. The current older cohort is a diverse group. While some are financially resilient, many are at risk of poor standards of living
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from the UK and other high income countries shows that fear of crime is often significantly associated with low quality of life, limited mobility and poor health status. There is no systematic research comparing ... comparing fear of crime and its potential effects across low and middle income countries. This brief presents newly available data from a World Health Organisation survey of older people’s health and wellbeing
