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hospitals June 2016 How and when someone is discharged from hospital, and the support they receive in the aftermath, are critical determinants of their long-term recovery and return to a reasonable quality of ... in hospital when they no longer need hospital care. Sometimes there seems to be a tendency to blame the patients, it being implied that some older people and their families are ‘choosing’ to remain in hospital
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eterminants of health’, for example better social networks, greater take‐up of physical activity or improved diet, leading to second stage, longer term, health related outcomes, for example improved mortality ... health 2. Direct measures of health, wellbeing and quality of life outcomes, either in the short to medium or longer term 3. Costs 4. Cost‐effectiveness In addition, questions of Equity and Desig
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increases to the basic State Pension and the new State Pension in line with the highest of rises in earnings, prices or 2.5%. By law the basic State Pension and new State Pension have to be increased ... important difference to the value of the State Pension. However, total average annual payments of State Pension still only add up to about £7,000 a year - a modest amount equivalent to only about half the
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care which, as set out in our report The Health and Care of Older People in England 2017, is now not only failing to meet the needs of increasing numbers of older people (1.2 million at our latest count) ... the autumn, this is tempered by some anxiety that today's emergency funding package, welcome though it is, may not be enough to keep the system going until a new, sustainable approach is put in place.’ “In
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information about the free bus pass in England and explains Age UK’s views. (Policy on the bus pass is devolved to local administrations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - where there are differences in ... peak travel is available to older people and disabled people between 9.30 and 23.00 on weekdays and all day on weekends and bank holidays. For older people in England eligibility for a bus pass is determined
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1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Neath Port Talbot In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services ... act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA (Independent Mental Health
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Option 1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Swansea In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services below ... act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA (Independent Mental Health
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and the benefits that a mixed aged workforce can bring to organisations. It also explored how some of the barriers that older people face when seeking and staying in employment. Minister for Economy Vaughan ... Widespread calls for more support to help older people thrive in the workplace The need to support older people wishing to return to, or remain in, the workplace to take full advantage of their skills
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document for Age UK Financial Services Commission, January 2014 About Just Retirement Just Retirement is a specialist provider of financial services products for people at, and in, retirement. We are the ... What is your recipe for resilience for recent retirees? Replace the current Open Market Option (OMO) rules for pension providers and trustees with new regulations to ensure “shopping around” is the default
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Rural Community Council Mervyn Kohler, Age UK Dr Kellie Payne, Learning and Research Manager, Campaign to End Loneliness Philip Talbot, Chief Executive, Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire Dr John Miles ... Foundation Trust Rural communities The meeting heard how distance, costs and connectivity all combine to create additional challenges. Geography was highlighted as a particularly important factor and there
