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defined as needing to spend 10 per cent or more of household income on fuel to maintain a heating regime adequate to safeguard comfort and health. Around 291,000 households were estimated to be in fuel poverty ... poverty in 2016, equivalent to 23% of households in Wales1. This represents a 7% decrease since 2012. Older people are the group most likely to suffer from fuel poverty. On average there are around 1,600
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Cymru A Top Tips Falls Guide for Carers It is often family or informal carers that will come across older or vulnerable people at risk of a fall or having already fallen. Their assistance in managing situations ... called. • • If you’ve fallen once, you are 50% more likely to fall again, with an escalating risk of injury. • • A ‘long lie’ of 12 hours or more can seriously affect a person’s recovery from
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September 2024) Page 1 of 18 Factsheet 49 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision June 2024 (Amended September 2024) About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with ... with expenses that are difficult to meet from a low income and includes: ⚫ Winter Fuel Payments ⚫ Cold Weather Payments ⚫ Funeral Expenses Payments Advances of Benefit are payments that partially replaced
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face discrimination are at the sharp end of inequality and poverty. The Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has brought these inequalities into stark relief and those of us who are most negatively affected by ... pandemic. A core tenet of advocacy is to redress inequality so that people’s rights are upheld and that they are respected as individuals who are listened to and understood irrespective of who they are or any
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1 Helping 50+ jobseekers back to work: lessons for the Work and Health Programme 2 Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................... ... ........................................................................ 8 What should be done to address this failing? ............................................................ 10 4. Disability and
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Prevent a fall Falls are not an inevitable part of growing older Take Action today 0300 303 4498 01639 617 333 0300 111 3333 For more information visit: www.agecymru.org.uk www.ageconnectswales.org.uk ... service and is not to replace your clinical review with your GP Do you take 4 or more medications daily? Has it been 12 months or more since you had a medication review? Do you struggle to see objects around
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Marcus Green and Phil Rossall Digital inclusion evidence review Contents 1 Digital inclusion of older people in the UK ........................................................................... ... ............... 3 Access to the internet ......................................................................................................................... 4 Number of older people not using the
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People’s Commissioner for Wales’ ‘State of the Nation’ report (2019) which references the following data sources: ‘This estimate is based on figures provided in a number of official sources: Welsh Government ... 8390, http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8390-1 AND Welsh Government, (2016), The Production of Estimated Levels of Fuel Poverty in Wales: 2012-2016, 11 July 2016. Available at: https://gov.wales/sites/de
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Energy and Climate Change Committee inquiry into home energy efficiency and demand reduction October 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic ... academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. Phil Mawhinney phil.mawhinney@ageuk.org.uk Age UK
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Please return to: [insert email address] Please read the checklist for submitting comments at the end of this form. We cannot accept forms that are not filled in correctly. We would like to hear your views ... that the reasons given in the guideline are sufficient to justify this? 2. Which areas will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement? Please say for whom and why. 3. What would
