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offering reflection and support to help them find their own way forward. The volunteers provide useful resources where appropriate and put service users in touch with helpful services. To contact Age Cymru’s ... 0330 055 4818. The Listen and Connect service is open Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm. Calls are charged at local rate. Would you like to become a Listen and Connect volunteer? Find out more about how to join
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everyone) • Shielding (for people identified by the Government as ‘extremely vulnerable’) Available at: https://gov.wales/protectyourself-others-coronavirus Summaries of each of the above are as follows: ... symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus, and don’t require hospital treatment, who must remain at home until they’re well. • those living in households with someone who shows symptoms that may be caused
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If you are in Northern Ireland, please contact Age NI for information. Contact details can be found at the back of this factsheet. Contact details for any organisation mentioned in this factsheet can be ... have a limited capacity for work due to sickness, and for carers, children, childcare if working, and help towards rent and housing costs. The government department with responsibility for social security
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to improve protection and to make will making services more accessible. The consultation paper looks at how to modernise the law on wills and how the law could comply with article 12 of the Convention on ... wills, we hosted a Policy Sounding Board comprised of 25 older people who regularly attend meetings at Age UK to discuss and give their views on current issues and legal reforms which impact older people
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statutory obligations and safeguards • Sustaining prevention • Placing proportionality and equality at the heart of all decisions Introduction Local authorities will be bracing themselves for the worst ... to prepare, will be facing even tougher times ahead. People in later life recognise that the services they value will not be exempt from consideration when local authorities look at where to make cuts
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of the most vulnerable people in Wales. Scams target everyone and all of us could fall prey to them. At least 150,000 people in Wales are believed to become victims of scams each year. In general older people ... poverty, isolation, frailty, cognitive impairment and because they are specifically targeted. We want to help create barriers that keep scams away from people. This will not be easy and we believe working in
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think about the future or create a dream where anything is possible! • Print out photos of residents’ faces • Once this is done, talk to each resident about what they’d love to do most in the world • Residents ... wonderful material for residents to work with. It comes in many different forms and textures, and can help exercise older people’s hand muscles. An interesting activity is creating a picture using clay as
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gan fod y cynllun yn cael ei ymestyn i gynnwys y grŵp oedran iau hwn. • Tudalen 10: mae’r ddolen at fanylion cyswllt cynghorau lleol nawr wedi newid. Gallwch nawr ddod o hyd i’r wybodaeth yn: www.gov ... gymorth defnyddwyr Cyngor ar Bopeth dylech nawr ffonio 0808 223 1133. • Tudalen 23: mae rhif ffôn Help Me Quit wedi newid. Y rhif nawr yw 0808 278 2522 • Tudalen 24: Rhif ffôn llinell cyngor arbenigol
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the Budget announcement in March 2014, whilst the flexibility that will be available to individuals at retirement has been generally welcomed, this will now be something to consider in the UK. Whilst the ... individual has a defined benefit income or decides to purchase an annuity, the remainder of the pot will be at risk from ill informed spending decisions, poor investment returns and longevity. AGE UK FINANCIAL
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pensioners.1 Housing We believe it’s important that Welsh Government’s proposed actions to decarbonise homes must consider how fuel poor households can be supported to mitigate any risks that decarbonisation ... to net zero. The post Covid-19 job market is particularly bleak for older workers who are already facing the highest rate of redundancy caused by the pandemic of all age groups. Recent ONS labour market
