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believes that being able to get out and about, whether by public transport or driving, is a vital way for older people to continue to be connected, to work, to access local services and to participate fully in ... the community sector, which means that it can be difficult to implement improvements. Yet, access to transport, or the lack of it, can have a profound impact on the quality of life, health and wellbeing
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Local Government and Housing Committee Priorities for the sixth Senedd Age Cymru is pleased to respond to the Local Government and Housing Committee’s consultation regarding key priority areas that should ... impact of Covid and recovery from the pandemic. We think a priority for the Committee should be to consider how the built environment post-Covid will facilitate the creation of an age friendly Wales in line
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Frank Feng, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham Reflecting a relatively low-value Basic State Pension, occupational pensions have historically been a key aspect of pension protection within Britain. Existing ... research shows that minority ethnic groups are less likely to benefit from such pensions and are more likely to face poverty in later life, as a result of the interaction of their labour market participation
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venture led by a partnership of Digital Unite, Affinity Sutton, AbilityNet, SCVO, Age UK and Citizens Online • Each partner delivered specific projects, through the use ‘trusted intermediaries’ to promote and ... deliver basic digital skills to end beneficiaries • Programme based on assumption that empowering, supporting and inspiring trusted intermediaries to be Digital Champions is a highly effective and sustainable
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A national arts in care homes participatory and mentoring programme Evaluation Report 2015-2017 Creating artists in residents A DSDC Wales Evaluation on behalf of Age Cymru I haven’t had such a delightful ... Full report available to download at www.agecymru.org.uk/cARTrefu/ To reference this report: Algar-Skaife, K., Caulfield, M. & Woods, B. (2017) cARTrefu: Creating artists in residents. A national arts in care
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situations. Older people with mental health problems were said to be 6 times more likely to be on medication but less likely to have access to talking therapies, with many receiving no help at all from the ... working longer and with changes to the state pension age, many more older people in their 60s are now living with anxieties from work and financial insecurity. Changes to women’s state pension age was also
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London WC1H 9NA T 0800 169 80 80 F 020 3033 1000 E policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 ... consultation Age UK would like to thank UN DESA for requesting NGO input on the main elements for inclusion in an international human rights instrument for older people referred to in General Assembly resolution
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Later life in rural England Age UK is a charity that aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research. In the UK we work ... Scotland, Age NI, Age Cymru and the many local Age UKs and older people’s groups. We provide services at a local and national level including information and advice that reaches some 6 million people each year
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Age UK briefing for MPs – Excess Winter Deaths June 2016 Over the last ten years a shocking quarter of a million older people have died from the cold –1 older person every 7 minutes and at the root of ... minutes from the cold November 2015 ONS figures show that over the winter of 2014/15 there were a staggering 40,800 excess winter deaths among the over 65s from cold-related illness The majority of
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Gearing up Housing Associations’ responses to tenants with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups Valerie Lipman, Jill Manthorpe About the Authors Valerie Lipman has worked in the older people’s ... people’s voluntary sector for many years and has a particular interest in race and ethnicity in the sector. She is currently a post-doctoral research intern at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s
