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• Are you aged 50 or over and live in Wales? • Do you look after, or give any unpaid help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long-term physical or mental ill-health ... ill-health or disability, or problems related to older age? • Are you currently not accessing any formal support or services to help you in your role looking after someone/giving unpaid support? If you answered
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AgeUKIG47 Practical help and emotional support. Caring for someone with dementia. 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining ... all. Join our Readers’ Panel at www.ageuk.org.uk/readers-panel. 2) Tell us your story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love
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A summary of Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life Age UK Policy and Research Department Dr Marcus Green Professor José Iparraguirre Dr Susan Davidson Phil Rossall University of Southampton Professor ... February 2017 www.ageuk.org.uk/wellbeingresearch Design by TRUE www.truedesign.co.uk Wellbeing encapsulates how we are faring, in all domains of life Contents Introduction 3 What did we do? 4 Our statistical
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About Age UK With more people needing our services than ever before, Age Concern and Help the Aged have joined forces, combining almost 120 years of experience. Together, we are Age UK. The Age UK family ... family includes Age Scotland, Age Cymru and Age NI and, additionally, many local Age Concerns are changing their name to Age UK. We are the new voice for millions of people in later life. We believe that
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Consultation Response Accessibility Action Plan consultation Department for Transport November 2017 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales ... seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Department for Transport’s Accessibility Action
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able to let them know. The Covid-19 pandemic has made a lot of us think more than ever about what’s important to us. Sadly, many people have died during the pandemic. We’ve heard how some ... care they wanted for their final journey; and for some, how difficult it’s been for people to get the care they needed during the pandemic crisis. Nationally, work is being done to try
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Buses – a lifeline for older people A report by the Bevan Foundation for Age Cymru December 2013 Contents Executive summary ................................................................ ... ........................................................................................... 3 1.1 What we did...........................................................................................
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Scams and nuisance calls David Teague Regional Manager, ICO Who is this man? “Cold calling capital of the UK” - ICO, March 2016 11,824 complaints 5,973 automated calls 4,521 TPS complaints 60 spam email ... 000 Help Direct UK Unsolicited text messages £225,000 Save Britain Money Live marketing calls £9,264,500 in penalties to date £120,000 Oxygen Ltd Lead generation £75,000 Marketing calls for… £80,000 Marketing
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Exercise – following the evidence The evidence for falls prevention exercise and how it can be applied in practice. Expert series To explain the research base for falls prevention exercise to give a better ... service providers, local Age UKs and other voluntary sector providers. Falls Prevention Exercise – following the evidence June 2013 This document: • Describes the evidence base for falls prevention exercise
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In 2020 Age Cymru began a Welsh Government funded project called Tell Me More to find out how care home residents have been during the difficult period of the pandemic. Residents from all-across Wales ... human beings and much of our communication is facial, non-verbal. During lockdowns people have needed to feel that connection more than ever. Looking at faces is one of our first forms of communication,
