Made me busier! However, It has given me new friends people to walk with. What do you enjoy most about your volunteering experience? Walking and socialising with like-minded people. What would you say
volunteering made to you? A new interest, meeting new people, learning new skills. What do you enjoy most about your volunteering experience? The relationships I am building with older people. What would you say
the claim form, you need to describe how your disability or illness affects you. Most decisions about AA claims are based only on what you say in the form, so it’s important you explain all the things ... people don’t mention how their disability or illness affects their lives – or they aren’t clear enough about it. Good to know. Your local Age UK might be able to help you fill in the form. In Wales, contact
bringing forward the SPA rise to 68 reinforces its importance. This paper aims to start a discussion about ho w such a service – based on Mid-Life Career Reviews (see below) – should be designed and implemented ... to save more into their private pension. We hope that it can be the start of a serious discussion about how to facilitate longer working lives and higher levels of pension saving. Late 50s is too late…
be complex, especially as people have limited understanding of the current system. Communications about the changes and their impact present a challenge. We welcome the protection in the Bill for some ... of implementation. While this response focuses on the proposed new system we also raise concerns about current pensioners and those who will reach SPA before implementation. 3. The level 3.1 Age UK believes
inequalities across Wales in access to bereavement support and help to address the stigma of talking about dying and end of life care. Access to bereavement services is inconsistent across Wales and this ... suggesting that there is considerable work to do to challenge the heteronormative assumptions within health and social care services.1 The older LGBT community have lived through times when coming out may
2020 2 of 73 Contents 1 Information about this factsheet 5 1.1 Definitions and terminology 5 2 Legislation covering the social care system in ... nurses in nursing homes 55 16.3 Rehabilitation – intermediate care and reablement 57 16.4 Mental health ‘after-care’ services 58 16.5 Continence services 60 16.6 Specialist assessment and bespoke equipment
room to meet other expenses and the situation will be worse still for those with disabilities or ill-health who have higher energy needs. Dementia, illnesses associated with falls such as arthritis and osteoarthritis ... are more likely to experience poor health as a result of poor housing.6 Older people, defined as being aged 60 and over, are at greater risk of avoidable ill health and premature death from living in a
enquiries to our Information and Advice services concern benefits so we are particularly concerned about the impact that changes to social security tribunals could have on older people and Age UK services ... video conference. We are concerned about the impact of these proposals and we are also surprised that the consultation paper does not specifically ask for views about the overall changes. For example, on
number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation The Independent Review of Retirement Income, led by the Pensions Institute at Cass ... people will make poor decisions that will have a lifelong impact on their finances, as well as their health and wellbeing. We therefore believe that action needs to be taken to prevent consumers – particularly