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amongst all the noise By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, March 2021 There is no doubting that we’re living in unprecedented times as we mark a year of lockdown following the onset of Covid 19 at the beginning ... everything that has been taking place, there is a danger that older people’s rights are not being upheld and promoted. Which is why we have redoubled our efforts to understand older people’s hopes, fears and
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Healthy Ageing Evidence Review This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, in order to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development ... Health Mentor) has been effective in improving healthy behaviours and reaching hard-to-reach groups, and has the potential to be sustained as a low-cost model. • There will be increasing pressure on costs
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Review is intended to sum up what is known about the financial abuse of older people. It does not cover commercial abuse (scams) in any detail, nor the abuse of younger people. In particular, it aims to ... provide the best available answers to the following questions: 1 What is financial abuse? 3 2 What is the prevalence of financial abuse of older people? 5 3 Who is at most risk of financial abuse?
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4116 December 2016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained ... org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House1-6
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Date: October 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained ... org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6
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who provides unpaid care and support to a relative, friend or neighbour who is disabled, physically or mentally ill, or affected by substance misuse”1. According to the 2011 census, there were 369,186 ... Wales provide over 50 hours of unpaid care per week.3 It is likely that the actual proportion of older carers is higher than these results. It is estimated that by 2037 there will be over half a million
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headline ........................................................................................... 7 Is the decline in hours good or bad? ................................................................ ... workers, making it an insufficient – and even misleading – tool for public policy decision-making. While headline rates for older workers have increased since the 2008 recession, the flip side is that the
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about the sources of information are given at the end of the note. Internet use and trends over time Internet use among older age groups has increased substantially over the last five years, but many ... non-users. 4.2 million people aged 65+ have never used the internet. A quarter (26%) of people aged 65 to 74 and around three-fifths (61%) of people aged 75+ do not regularly use the internet. The Office for
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Consultation Response Age UK’s Response to the Ministry of Justice Consultation Transforming our justice system: assisted digital strategy, online conviction and statutory fines November 2016 ... Ref 3816 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained
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Date: December 2014 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained ... org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6
