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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. A specific report is due ... evidence review on the premise that people working for Age UK will need to have clarity on the basic concepts of dementia and cognitive ageing, either in their work or personally - or both. Even in private
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4 of 57 13.2 How the deferred payment agreement will work 42 13.3 Placing a charge on the property 43 13.4 Making sure that the care home resident is allowed ... conducting a financial assessment for someone who needs to go into a care home and subsequently working out what charge a service user should pay, all local authorities in Wales will need to comply with
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one‐stop shops etc • re‐ablement, e.g. shorter, intensive, more rehabilitative bouts of care • partnership working, e.g. joint health and social care • personalisation, e.g. personal care budgets Allen and G ... are occasionally regarded as automatically better without due attention to evidence. Sometimes process – 'Are we working well together?' – takes precedence over outcome – 'Is it better for the older person?'. Loca
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written materials and individual enquires by telephone, letters, emails and face to face sessions. We work closely with Age UK Cymru, Age UK NI and Age UK Scotland. Key points and recommendations We do ... However, in order to ensure income adequacy in retirement, pension saving needs to take place across working life.iii There is a danger that if the LISA becomes a substitute (wholly or partially) for pension
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services or the many voluntary sector services in their area. Our model also promotes a new way of working, shifting away from siloed medical interventions towards a model featuring non-medical support delivered ... prevalent in people over 85 and the total numbers are likely to grow substantially in the coming years. Work carried out by Age UK has identified frailty as an important risk factor for low mood and depression
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Commons/2017-06-21/65/ Allowance are increased in line with the CPI, while the levels of some working age benefits have been restricted or frozen for some time. State pensions uprating – background2 ... particularly concerned about the cost of spectacles. Another told us that after 47 years of full time work her State Pension of £134 a week was ‘not mega bucks’. And while she was thankful for the April increase
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social care 14 7 Returning from abroad checklist 15 Useful organisations 16 Age UK 21 Support our work 21 Age UK factsheet 25 December 2023 Returning from abroad Page 3 of 22 1 Is a return to the UK ... means-tested benefits, so your income and capital, for example savings, are taken into account when working out your entitlement. Pension Credit PC is for older people with a low income and can be claimed
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transport in the evenings. In a recent survey with 1200 older people carried out by Age Cymru working in partnership with Cymru Older People’s Alliance (COPA), Welsh Senate of Older People, Active Wales ... policy statement – accessible and inclusive public transport objectives7 includes a reference to ‘Work with providers of public transport to raise awareness of the risk of trips and falls for older people
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be beneficial and justified in certain individual circumstances we recommend that further detailed work is done to engage stakeholders on this issue, before any decision is taken to proceed along these ... everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this. We help more than five million people every year, providing support, companionship
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written materials and individual enquiries by telephone, letters, emails and face to face sessions. We work closely with Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland. Local Age UKs are active in supporting and advising ... comes to proposals around monitoring quality, it will be important to ensure that all stakeholders work in partnership when concerns emerge. Care Act and NHS Continuing Healthcare reviews as well as safeguarding
