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and we work every day to achieve this. We help more than 5 million people every year, providing support, companionship and advice for older people who need it most. The Age UK network includes Age UK, ... taking their medication who receive no support from paid or unpaid carers.6,7 This is in spite of a new Care Act, enacted only in 2014, which requires greater support for people who pay for their own care
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thereby being sure that all our loved ones worries about dying and death are acknowledged. This will support us all to have the knowledge and ability to challenge systems and organisations to ensure that everyone ... understand and challenge systems, organisations and health care professionals about the care and support of a loved one who is dying. We have illustrated this book to allow you to use this, as a device
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good idea to find out the number for your local council. They'll be able to provide a lot of the support and information mentioned in this guide. My local council phone number is: Who this guide is for ... families and carers. If you’re reading this for someone else, it can be difficult to know how best to support them. But there are lots of handy tips throughout this guide – and there’s information specifically
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provision of information, help with psychological distress, daytime activities, help with benefits and support for physical health.5 While the number of prison staff with a lead responsibility for older prisoners ... visiting service to prison day centres for older lifers. Buddy schemes promote prisoner to prisoner support for frail or disabled prisoners by, for example, bringing meals and cleaning cells. This may be formalised
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industry, and other stakeholders to begin considering how to improve outcomes in retirement. We support a single rate of tax relief for all pension savers. This should be marketed as a ‘top up’ or as, ... saving too little to achieve a decent standard of living in retirement.iii There is a clear need to support people to save more, and having a fair and easy-to-understand system of tax relief – perhaps re-badged
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signposting to appropriate services. • This needs to include having suitable defaults in place to support more disengaged savers. These need to be particularly relevant for smaller savers and be based on ... carefully considered. • Age UK favours the aggregator model of dealing with small pots, and does not support the pot-follows-member approach. • There is a need to refresh the debate on income adequacy in retirement
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on stereotyped views of older people. Workers in later life are often ambitious but need to be supported by their employer to use their skills in different ways. For example, older workers can make good ... Victimisation: This occurs when a person is treated badly because he or she in good faith has made or supported a discrimination claim under the Equality Act provisions. The aim of this is to protect people from
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including information and advice that reaches some 6 million people each year. Internationally, we support programme and policy work in lower and middle-income countries through our partner and subsidiary ... communities, at the heart of which are the many older people who volunteer and who are the primary users, supporters and organisers of local facilities and events. However, while community action can provide some
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intervening in individual discrimination cases. However its first priority is to provide guidance, support and encouragement so that organisations and service providers can get it right first time. This is ... illness, but it can be challenging. At Age UK we provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people. We stand up and speak for all those who have reached
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feedback from older people from our annual surveys, gained feedback from our information, advice and support services, and listened to older people’s concerns through our ongoing community-based engagement ... been amazing as I have an auto immune oral condition and he has always video called me and had the support when needed” (Blaenau Gwent). We have broken down responses by area as a means of seeing if there
