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lifestyle 18 Work & learning 22 Closer to home 26 Around the world 32 Financial review 38 Welcome to Age UK's Annual Review 2011/12. Together with our partners, supporters, volunteers and staff we help make later ... million people through our Let’s Talk Money campaign, offering expert information and advice. We delivered training to advice line staff on debt advice and we are now taking people’s calls. 5 Health & wellbeing
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..................................................................................... 11 Alzheimer's disease ........................................................................................... ... ................................................. 16 Genetic causes and associations for Alzheimer’s ............................................................................. 16 Genes for other types
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#ProudtobeAgeUK A review of 2015/16 We’re Age UK Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We are national In the UK we help more than seven million ... proud of all that Age UK does and stands for. But being proud doesn’t mean being complacent. There’s so much more work to do. With your support, together, we can create a world where everyone can love
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activities such as managing finances, negotiating with health and care services and acting as the person’s advocate, particularly if the person lacks mental capacity to make decisions. Carers may 1 Welsh Government ... Committee, 14 March 2013 5 C McNeil and J Hunter (2014): The Generation Strain (IPPR, London): p3 6 S Yeandle & L Buckner, Valuing Carers 2015 – the rising value of carers’ support, p5 2 continue to play
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Executive Summary Our calls It is a truism that prevention is the best buy in health. Yet shifting society’s focus towards prevention is challenging; health services must treat people in poor health and this task ... some assurance that the scale of the prevention challenge and opportunity is recognised. NHS England’s Five Year Forward View calls for a ‘radical upgrade in prevention and public health’ and commits to
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We also thank Anji Mehta from the NIHR School for Social Care Research, and Libby Archer from Age UK’s Research Department, for assistance with editing. And not least we thank all of the authors in this ... Improving later life. Vulnerability and resilience in older people. 4 Welcome On behalf of Age UK it’s a great pleasure for me to welcome you to this fourth book in our ‘Improving Later Life’ series. These
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cigarettes a day.4 People with a high degree of loneliness are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as people with a low degree of loneliness.5 86% of over 65s say they are satisfied with their personal ... individual’s personal, subjective sense of lacking desired affection, closeness, and social interaction with others. Although loneliness has a social aspect, it is also defined by an individual’s subjective
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Project editors: Professor James Goodwin and Phil Rossall Improving later life. These days, there’s a huge amount of information available on how to age well and what to do to ensure a healthier and ... Much of this advice is based on sound evidence, but much is confusing and often contradictory – what’s good for us one day can all too often be bad for us the next. Age UK is committed to promoting research
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with interventions relevant to a person’s stage of frailty is increasingly effective in managing the condition. planning care would make a huge difference to a person’s long-term outcomes and overall mental ... Layton JB, 2010), and people with a high degree of loneliness are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s than people with a low degree of loneliness (Wilson RS, et al. 2007). Wilson RS, Krueger KR, Arnold
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UK May 2012 Citing this report: Melzer D, Tavakoly B, Winder R, Richards S, Gericke C, Lang, I. Health Care Quality for an Active Later Life: Improving quality of prevention ... Department of Health Mr David Buck: Senior Fellow, Public Health and Health Inequalities, The King’s Fund Prof Peter Crome: Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Primary Care and Population Health
