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to offer products to consumers in the retirement income marketplace. At present NEST operates only as a pensions saving scheme, and its members have to move to other providers when they want to access ... provide an additional safeguard for smaller savers, as well as foster greater innovation and competition at this end of the marketplace. • NEST could act as a conduit to advice and guidance, helping boost
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thinking skills change with age and what we can do to protect our cognitive health in later life. As well as funding, we have worked with the researchers to summarise, interpret and translate their findings ... Sometimes, however, the problem is not that there is too little information, but too much. A lot of what you may read in the newspapers and online is incomplete or simply misleading, which is rarely helpful,
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us old fashioned, but there’s nothing quite like a classic bobble dazzler to get hooks looping. how you crochet it: (in blue) Start 6 dc in a magic ring [6] round 1: (in pink) inc in all 6 st [12] round ... centre, and trim if necessary. Congratulations, you’ve made the hattiest hat of them all. We’ll take one in human size. These patterns are just ideas to get you started. Feel free to try different colours
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Are you looking after someone? If you are, you’re not alone. Around 3 in 5 of us will be carers at some point in our lives. Across Wales hundreds of thousands of people are providing help or support ... supported, challenges remain. There are many in our communities providing care but do not see themselves as an unpaid carer and are not aware of their rights. There are many who don’t know what support
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views on these questions: 1. Do any recommendations represent a substantial increase in costs, and do you consider that the reasons given in the guideline are sufficient to justify this? 2. Which areas will ... commenting. Stakeholder organisation(s) (or your name if you are commenting as an individual): Age UK Name of commentator (leave blank if you are commenting as an individual): Tom Gentry Comment number Document
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Economist magazine said: ‘Some fret that there will not be enough jobs to go around. This misapprehension, known to economists as the “lump of labour fallacy”, was once used to argue that women should stay ... can become more prosperous by paying more of its citizens to be idle is clearly nonsensical. On that reasoning, if the retirement age came down to 25 we would all be as rich as Croesus.’i The view that there
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nical measures such as Body Mass Index or lung function, simple selfreported health measures such as the EU‐SILC five point scale, or more complex validated health measures such as SF‐12 and SF‐36. ... For health related quality of life, measures such as the NICE recommended EuroQol EQ‐5D and EQ VAS may be used. 1 Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review June 2014 • Longer term health outco
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to measure of loneliness .............................................................. 5 Loneliness as part of wider well-being scales .................................................................. ... company. 3 Loneliness can be as harmful for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.4 People with a high degree of loneliness are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as people with a low degree of
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frequently experience discriminatory treatment. As a result society is failing to benefit fully from the valuable resources that older people offer – as potential employees, volunteers, elected representatives ... in itself the Declaration has no binding legal effect, it aims to clarify the rights of older people as already underpinned by existing legislation. We believe that the Declaration could be a symbolic step
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Falling over isn’t an inevitable part of ageing Did you know that many of us start to feel a bit unsteady on our feet or worry about falling. But there are simple things we can do to help avoid a slip
