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55+), the picture is very different, rapidly approaching a position where twice the number of 55+ will have used the internet 4 Age UK Digital Inclusion Evidence Report 2013 Marcus Green and Phil Rossall ... to be using the internet than individuals without problems. This is an interesting finding, which will need further unpicking. - Older individuals who do not deal with problems well are less likely to
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is delighted to be partnering with Age UK for a second time to publish this report, which we hope will encourage commissioners to ask themselves whether they have referral policies in place that might ... partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons, we want to prompt the NHS to ask some of the questions that will help it to address these issues: Why are you 37 times more likely in one part of the country to have
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types of care home 8 Care needs assessments 9 Paying for care Who pays for my care home place? 12 Will I have to sell my home? 17 Third party top-up fees 20 Paying for your own care home place 21 Choosing ... place’ on page 21. Who pays for my care home place? Following your care needs assessment, the council will do a financial assessment to find out what you’ll have to pay towards your fees, and whether you’re
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reaching hard-to-reach groups, and has the potential to be sustained as a low-cost model. • There will be increasing pressure on costs and funding for services in the next five years, regardless of which ... funding to local authorities. It is likely that these commitments to prevention and public health will be severely tested when the inevitable reductions in acute hospital services start to bite, whichever
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the advantages that they are not currently aware of and become more interested in going online. It will, however, be necessary to ensure that attempts to encourage online use go beyond the provision of ... this audience, being forced online by withdrawal of alternative means of accessing goods and services will be very problematic, with a potentially damaging impact on health and wellbeing. o For those who
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in Financial Services in the UK 3 Welsh Government (2018) Making older people’s rights a reality will make Wales the best place in the world to grow old. 16 May 2018 https://gov.wales/newsroom/health ... services Human rights Note: Access to justice, hate crime and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) will be covered in Age Cymru’s public policy statement on ‘Safeguarding older people’. Public policy
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their skills could best be used. Because individual motivation will vary, the same roles, salaries and training or re-training opportunities will not be appropriate for everyone. Employers and governments ... focusing on generic working practices or development programmes, such as assuming older employees will need to improve their I.T. skills. All older people also make a large contribution to the wider economy
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Wellbeing in Later Life “WILL”. They can be broadly termed as (1) Conceptual model; (2) Data preparation; (3) Modelling wellbeing; (4) Choice of domains; and (5) Calculating the WILL Index. Each of these ... Calculate overall WILL Index Extensive discussion with policy and services experts for research translation The methods chosen were deemed most suitable in meeting the objectives set out for the WILL Index:
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Wellbeing in Later Life “WILL”. They can be broadly termed as (1) Conceptual model; (2) Data preparation; (3) Modelling wellbeing; (4) Choice of domains; and (5) Calculating the WILL Index. Each of these ... Calculate overall WILL Index Extensive discussion with policy and services experts for research translation The methods chosen were deemed most suitable in meeting the objectives set out for the WILL Index:
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decades. Estimates have indicated that the overall value of the economic contribution of older people will reach around £82 billion by 2030. Unemployment in later life While many older people continue ... flexible working rose from 30% to 38% between 2005 and 2010.1 As the workforce ages more people will need to use differentiated working patterns, so technological developments which facilitate this,
