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Currently over 100,000 older people in Wales are estimated to live in poverty. Some older people miss out on socialising or activities because even small charges for these, or the costs of transport, are beyond ... beyond them. This means that some people barely leave their home, resulting in chronic loneliness and what we increasingly understand to be the severe health impacts associated with this. 4. Age Cymru runs
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Committee’s Inquiry into Human Rights in Wales. The impact of the UK’s withdrawal from European Union on human rights protection in Wales. 1. Our age discrimination laws stem from EU treaty provisions and ... Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ECHR is an international treaty distinct from the EU Treaties and EU Charter on Fundamental Rights. 2 2 | P a g e 5. British citizens are still able to rely on their
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or over across small geographical units in England. It uses data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) survey to obtain predictors of loneliness and to test for the presence of spatial neighbouring ... (Moorer and Suurmeijer, 2001; Scharf and de Jong Gierveld, 2008; Woolham et al, 2013), but merely one attempt at presenting the overall picture of loneliness across all small areas in a country –the Netherlands
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The system will still rely on consumers at retirement becoming informed, engaged and taking active decisions. Just as there has not been strong competitive pressure placed on companies to offer good value ... decisions and there may be a strong trend towards the ‘default’ option, with consumers either taking what they are offered or choosing the middle of multiple options. Despite more than 10 years of effort
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lockdown • Challenges of lockdown 4 • Communication 21 • Positive experiences of lockdown 24 Views on future recovery • Challenges of moving out of lockdown 25 • Accessing health and social care 27 • ... people aged 50 or over in Wales during the first Covid-19 pandemic national lockdown, and their thoughts on the future recovery. The survey was completed by 1114 older people in Wales, 942 completed it online
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lockdown • Challenges of lockdown 4 • Communication 21 • Positive experiences of lockdown 24 Views on future recovery • Challenges of moving out of lockdown 25 • Accessing health and social care 27 • ... people aged 50 or over in Wales during the first Covid-19 pandemic national lockdown, and their thoughts on the future recovery. The survey was completed by 1114 older people in Wales, 942 completed it online
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initially presented at a summit event that took place on 6 February, before the 2014 Budget announcement regarding the removal of restrictions on accessing Defined Contribution savings. For this reason ... summit meeting of the Financial Services Commission and is on the topic of the ‘recently retired’ and their financial resilience. The note explains what we mean by the ‘recently retired’; explores their financial
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services .......................................................... 18 2.2 Growing funding pressures on social care ................................................................ 20 2.3 Future funding ... ............ 25 2.5 The impact of social care cuts on older people and their families ............................. 28 2.6 Impact of funding cuts on the sustainability of the social care system ......
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Hammond delivered his first and last ‘Spring’ Budget on 8 March (as Budgets will in future take place in the Autumn). In a document that was light on surprises, most of the key points having been well-signalled ... older people (1.2 million at our latest count), but also having an increasingly serious knock-on effect on the rest of our healthcare system. In the event, the Chancellor proposed funding of £2bn over
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Older people’s independence and mental wellbeing Consultation on draft NICE public health guideline (PHG65) Ref: 1515 Date: July 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this ... National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing a public health guideline on independence and mental wellbeing (including social and emotional wellbeing) for older people, which
