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Christine Milligan Dr Mary Turner International Observatory on End of Life Care Faculty of Health and Medicine Lancaster University i Executive Summary: This report presents findings from an independent ... Programme. Six local Age UK organisations in England were funded to provide practical and emotional support to older cares, and to establish the potential role of trained volunteer delivered interventions in
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Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review May 2014 The effectiveness of care pathways in health and social care Background Care pathways, also known as clinical pathways, critical pathways, care paths ... ays, case management plans, clinical care pathways or care maps, are used to systematically plan and follow up a focused patient or client care programme.1 Care pathways are a way of setting out a process
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Changing family structures and their impact on the care of older people. Summary Families in the UK are changing. This brief review looks at how changing family structures will influence the supply and demand f ... or formal and informal care by older people? • Most informal care for older people is provided by partners and adult children. Changes in family structure, whether it may be from having fewer chi
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AFFORDABILITY OF RETIREMENT HOUSING IN THE UK SEPTEMBER 2012 HANNAH ALDRIDGE, PETER KENWAY AND JENNY PANNELL Affordability of retirement housing in the UK 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Summary 3 Research ... ................................................................... 14 3. State financial support and its impacts 18 Financial help from the state .....................................................
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Sally.west@ageuk.org.uk Jane.vass@ageuk.org.uk 2 The Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last ‘Spring’ Budget on 8 March (as Budgets will in future take place in the Autumn). In a document ... calling for an emergency injection of funding for social 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
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Greenmantle, Helen Hibberd, Raj Kaur, Mary O’Mahony, Robert Page, Chris Ricard, Daljit Singh, Elaine Unegbu and Bill Williams. Edited by Tine Buffel Researching Age-Friendly Communities Stories from older people ... Manchester (Manchester City Council), and the Office for Social Responsibility at the University of Manchester. Contributions come from older co-investigators and representatives of community organisations
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herself a fish out of water at university and experiencing deep loneliness, and later of seeing the devastating effects of loneliness in her constituency of Batley and Spen. Jo recognised that loneliness was ... problem, that it could affect anyone of us, and that its impacts were real and lasting. She wanted to bring new focus and attention to loneliness in our communities, and to encourage action. Jo’s vision for the
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with accessible and adaptable homes 7 Tackling poor conditions and delivering decent homes 13 Integrating housing with health and social care 19 Building for the future – sheltered and retirement housing ... Housing wealth and housing choices 35 Notes 41 Age UK is a charity that aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research. In
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poorest and most disabled older people1 and other reports and anecdotal evidence demonstrate the important role it plays. For example, qualitative research commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions ... Pensions (DWP) and published in 2010 looked at AA and Disability Living Allowance (DLA), and concluded: Findings showed a wide range of ways in which DLA and AA are currently enabling elderly and disabled people
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Neighbourhood effects and pension protection amongst ethnic minorities in England and Wales Zhixin Frank Feng, Athina Vlachantoni, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham Ethnic minorities ... concentrated in particular geographical areas in England and Wales. Neighbourhood effects, such as the concentration of individuals from particular ethnic groups and levels of local deprivation, can impact upon the
