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question 2, we would strongly encourage all agencies to disaggregate comparative data by age. Our work with the Royal College of Surgeons has demonstrated huge variations in access to procedures such as ... felt able to access healthcare services in a timely manner and also felt that referral from GPs is working well. Although they did sometimes struggle to get a GP appointment, this was not, overall, a significant
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you support the work set out in the draft flood risk management plan to reduce flood risk? We welcome the intention, set out in FRMPs, for the various Flood Management Authorities to ‘work in partnership
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the NHS as a whole, not just those responsible for specialist palliative care. All professionals working in the NHS will care for people who are dying, yet training in end of life care remains poor. Geriatricians ... the use of the word “frailty”, a word increasingly used in government and wider health policy. In work we have recently completed on health professional perceptions of frailty (not yet published) there
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different households in order to reach an acceptable standard of living, as seen in the extensive work by Joseph Rowntree Foundation.iv Self-reported measures - people are asked how well off they consider ... which documents the daily struggles of coping on a low income. Our report found that participants worked incredibly hard to manage financially. They kept a close eye on their budget and managed their resources
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for Wales Cross-Party Group on Dementia April 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead
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and would be penalised if they had to pay tax upfront. Anyone who is a basic rate taxpayer when working and then a non-taxpayer in retirement would be penalised this way. With the income tax personal allowance ... saving. The research shows that having lower numeracy skills, which is directly associated with working in lower skilled roles, makes people more likely to value the present over the future, and become
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problem is due to a deep rooted lack of understanding of older people’s needs on the part of many working within health care. Trainee doctors for example spend very little time on older people’s wards as ... Guidance for Banks and Building Societies 6 3.7. In cases of financial abuse the MCA has helped those working in adult safeguarding to decide where to draw the line between what may be an unwise financial decision
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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
