Assisted Travel Office of Rail and Road January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead
Rail Franchise & The Metro consultation February 2017 Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead
follow healthy practices is constrained by the circumstances in which they were born, grew, lived, worked, and aged. We need to pay attention to these circumstances so that the advice contained here, based ... about your body’s journey through life, feeding it with care and putting it through its paces can work wonders, even if your exercise regimen has to be adapted to take account of health problems, including
...................................................................................... 9 5 What works? ................................................................................................ ... cooperation is needed to improve survival, and this requires trust, communication, planning, and working together.36 Thus, loneliness may be essential for species survival, because like thirst and hunger
through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research. In the UK we work closely with our partners Age Scotland, Age NI, Age Cymru and the many local Age UKs and older people’s ... 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 charity Age International
ation of families, may have an effect on the availability of care. • The change factors often work against each other or appear to be having less effect than might be thought. While reduced family size reduces the ... en until it’s biologically too late, or the perceived costs and benefits of childbearing versus work and leisure activities.’5 5 ONS, 2013
lifetime. 1 Housing and Finance Working Group (2013), Department of Health Steering Group ‐ Housing and Equity 2 Lievesley et al (2011) ... for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review June 2014 Banks J, Crawford R and Tetlow G; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP; Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS (2010) What does the distribution of wealth
at home, Adapting your home and Housing options to find out more about other solutions that might work for you. For example, supported or extra-care housing – where you have your own accommodation but ... the assessment, the council decides whether you’re eligible for care and support. If you are, they work with you to develop a care and support plan that sets out the services they’ll provide. 10 As part
for. Sometimes, people want to help but aren’t sure how – so telling them what would be useful can work well. If you care for someone from a distance, perhaps their neighbours or local friends could step ... information about this on page 37. 7 Options if you’re working. If you’re juggling work and caring, you could consider requesting flexible working from your employer. Your employer doesn’t have to agree
with the leasehold system disempower all residents and increase their costs. The status quo tends to work in favour of providers, rather than in the best interests of residents. There 3 should be a greater ... previously consulted with a panel of residents looking at retirement housing, resulting in our ‘Making it work for us’ report (2012). This gives a good indication of some of the key issues for older leaseholder