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Information about the disability benefit Attendance Allowance, if you're entitled to attendance allowance and how to claim
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This is Age UK’s response to the Smith Institute’s Making Work Better Inquiry. The inquiry aims to identify what can be done by different parties to improve job quality, and to help the UK move towards ... recommendations • To improve job quality, more must be done to tackle age discrimination in the workplace. This can be done through educating employers and managers to avoid discriminating and to challenge stereotypes;
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national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Parliamentary
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Dementia Advocate to: • Understand your accommodation options? • Understand the choices you can make? • Access the services you need? • Stay connected to the things that matter to you? • Know your ... Advocacy: supporting you to be heard and at the centre of decisions Are you, or someone you know, aged 18+ and living in Wales with a diagnosis of dementia? If you think that we can support you, please call
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Director of Age Cymru Enterprises. I hope that you will find this pack informative and useful in supporting your decision to apply. Age Cymru is the leading charity for older people in Wales, working in partnership ... looking to recruit a non-executive Director of Age Cymru Enterprises who is dedicated and will support the operation to new levels of success, and ensure that it is fully able to contribute to improving
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charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network comprises around 150 local Age UKs reaching most of England. We provide information and advice to around 5.9 million ... people each year, through web-based and written materials and individual enquiries by telephone, letters, emails and face-to-face sessions. We work closely with Age UK Cymru, Age UK NI and Age UK Scotland.
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It is our strongly-held view that enabling people to remain independent as they age is an investment that will be amply repaid in terms of savings to healthcare and income support services, and we pick ... order for this investment to be effectively developed, infrastructure spending must take into account the realities of an ageing population. Local Government must be supported to provide the local infrastructure
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for Us A residents’ inquiry into sheltered and retirement housing 1 Acknowledgements 3 Executive summary 4 Key recommendations 5 Introduction 7 What is this inquiry? 7 Definitions 8 Background to the inquiry ... retirement housing 10 About this report 11 Legal advice and advocacy 13 Complaints 13 Access to advice 16 The ‘Right to Manage’ 18 Reform of leasehold 21 Role of solicitors 23 Affordability 25 Service charges
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lonely, remember you're not alone. Feeling lonely doesn’t necessarily mean you have no one nearby. You can be surrounded by friends and family but still feel lonely.
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East to share common concerns and seek solutions. SEEFA is a multi-organisation partnership that shares best practice and raises awareness of issues on ageing in the South East. We also wish to thank ... thank the members of the Age UK Engagement Development Reference Group who have contributed their views and ideas to this publication and provided information and advice throughout the development of this
