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Why getting to hospital appointments is a major issue for older people IN-DEPTH POLICY REPORT 2 Introduction For most of us just having a hospital appointment is enough to worry about but imagine having ... and having to take three different buses to get there. This is the reality for many of the older people we have heard from. That’s why Age UK is calling on the Government to urgently review the way older
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financial means test for care home provision 11 4.1 Introduction 11 4.2 What is deprivation of assets? 11 4.3 Deprivation of income 12 5 The Code of Practice guidance and deprivation ... 14 5.4 When is deprivation deliberate – the question of ‘intention’, ‘motive’, ‘timing’ and ‘foreseeability’ 15 6 Local authority investigations 16 7 Examples of where a local authority
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Page 1 of 31 TECHNOLOGY TOGETHER A Project Level Evaluation Vinal K Karania Research Manager (Evaluation & Impact) Research Department, Age UK Page 2 of 31 Age UK Tavis ... participating in the project who shared information for this evaluation. The author would like to give a special mention to Titilope Adekunle (Research Assistant at Age UK) for supporting the author in carrying
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1 A Report on Age Cymru’s 2022 Older Carers Survey Creating an age friendly Wales Creating an age friendly Wales 1 Introduction There are more than 370,000 unpaid carers in Wales, with around 220,000 ... 000 of those older than 50 years old. This figure is from the 2011 Census and is likely to have increased when factoring in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Older Carers in Wales Survey 2022 was
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org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6 ... sector equality duty. We agree that addressing variation in access to and outcomes from care should be a priority. This should include making progress in reducing the gap in disability-free life expectancy
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this Self Assessment Tool is to ascertainorganisationalreadiness to comply with the Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) and its strategic intent.The Self Assessment Tool itself is structured in four sections ... the different stages of the commissioning cycle: analyse, plan, do, review.It should be noted that is not an audit instrument through whicha ‘performance management’ assessment might be made, but rather
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3 Keeping a record of issues 7 4 Common problems, who to contact and actions that can be taken 8 4.1 Particularly serious issues or problems 8 4.2 Approaching a neighbour ... 2 If you live in private rented accommodation 27 10.3 Homelessness applications 28 10.4 If you are a homeowner 29 10.5 ‘Age-exclusive’ housing or sheltered housing 29 11 Complaints regarding organisations
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2011 2 Introduction The Equality Act 2010 introduces for the fi rst time a duty on public bodies to promote age equality. This offers a major opportunity to improve the lives of older people and assist public ... provide an overview of the requirements of the equality duty and equip public bodies to implement it in a way that delivers tangible benefi ts to those in later life. It explains the legal requirements that
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...a narrative for coordinated support for older people 2 ...a narrative for co-ordinated support for older people We all like categories. They help us make sense of the world and feel more comfortable ... moment’s thought might redirect us to a view that any differences are actually smaller than the similarities of shared humanity between the groups. An older person is not an alien species – simply our (former)
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July 2018 v1.4 - July 2018 Age UK Grant Management System Introduction to GIFTS GIFTS - is a robust, fully auditable and customisable solution for grant management which streamlines and simplifies ... also be stored electronically and linked to the appropriate records to be accessed at the click of a link. The system also supports an online portal (to which this document refers) where applicants and
