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to claim other benefits including Housing Benefit (if you rent your home), help with health costs and possibly help from the Council Tax Reduction Scheme . To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must
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Supporting people to prepare You can help the person you’re supporting with preparing for eventualities that may arise. This can help people feel less anxious, and help things seem less uncertain in this ... supporting has a second ‘Friend’ volunteer paired with them in a different household, as well as you. • Help the individual construct a one-page summary for any Health/Social care worker needing to visit/have
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last 12 months?(e.g., getting an assessment for your needs, needs as a carer, day centre support, help at homewithdailylivingtasks,gettingsupporttoleavehospital,respitecareandresidential care.)o Yesformeo ... social care and accessing it in the last 12 months?B9. Do you currently look after or give any unpaid help or support to family members, friends, neighbours, or others because of long-term physical or mental
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support the idea of including a comparison tool, which should be behaviourally tested to ensure it helps individuals reach an appropriate decision. This consultation is also an opportunity to look beyond ... we believe that everyone who transfers out without advice should be defaulted into Pension Wise to help improve understanding of the pension freedoms. There should be greater emphasis on ‘what happens
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pavements, poor street lighting or fear of crime can stop people feeling confident enough to go out at all. Our joint report with the Campaign to End Loneliness, Promising approaches to reducing loneliness ... good health in later life. Entrenched stigma towards ageing has meant that older people have often faced inequalities in accessing treatment. Despite the passage of the Equality Act 2010, public and private
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mental wellbeing, as well as steps you can take if you think you need some help. It’s never too early or too late to seek help. Some people call mental health ‘mental wellbeing’, ‘emotional health’, or ... and family about how you feel can help you see things from a different perspective. If you would rather speak to someone you’re not close to, you may find it helpful to talk to a counsellor or visit a
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focussing on older working women. About Age UK Age UK is the country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. The Age UK network comprises of around 165 local Age UKs reaching ... through web based and written materials and individual enquires by telephone, letters, emails and face to face sessions. We work closely with Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland. Please note this submission
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2017, is now not only failing to meet the needs of increasing numbers of older people (1.2 million at our latest count), but also having an increasingly serious knock-on effect on the rest of our healthcare ... care packages”. This funding will be supplemented with targeted measures to support those areas facing the greatest challenges, particularly in reducing delayed transfers of care between NHS and social
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care or treatment should only be sanctioned as a measure of last resort. For older people, too often, at the moment it is the first. Decision making must always seek to maximise capacity and independence ... with the MCA, we are concerned that they may be outweighed by the added complexity it brings, which is at odds with the overall aim of simplification. 3 • The difficulty of identifying ‘less restrictive’
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need people to become a telephone befriender. We need your help more than ever before. Sign up today as a telephone befriender and help make someone’s day. If you're aged 70 or over and live ... Advice on 0300 303 44 98, open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 4:00pm. Friendship calls will be once a week at the same time, and are 30 minutes in length. We'll follow up your registration with a call up to a
