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PPI PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE The financial resilience of the recently retired This report is a report for Age UK’s Financial Services Commission and was initially presented at a summit event that ... summit meeting of the Financial Services Commission and is on the topic of the ‘recently retired’ and their financial resilience. The note explains what we mean by the ‘recently retired’; explores their financial
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discrimination, ageism is based on inaccurate stereotypes, and often in the case of older people, assumptions about a person’s ability and competence due to their age. An effect of ageism is that older people ... people frequently experience discriminatory treatment. As a result society is failing to benefit fully from the valuable resources that older people offer – as potential employees, volunteers, elected representatives
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paint a vivid picture of the importance of bus services to older people’s independence and wellbeing. It emphasises how many older people rely on the bus as their only means of reaching essential services ... Welsh Government funding for bus services having been reduced by 22% between 2011/12 and 2013/14, there is a very real threat to the continued existence of many routes across Wales. The report demonstrates
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although consideration will be given if a site has a clear benefit to our users and the information is not available non-commercially. The content of the site must be relevant and useful to the audience ... easy-to-use. The website must conform to accessibility guidelines so that people with disabilities can use it. The Digital Editorial team will consult with the relevant internal Age Cymru specialist to reach a
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issues around funding and sustainability, quality of service, training of advocates, advocacy and its role in safeguarding, accessibility in terms of language, and knowledge and understanding of legislative ... legislative changes in advocacy. Advocacy Counts 6 presents the findings from our most recent survey. It explores the findings in light of the period of transition we are in, from the completion of the large
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Government launched a consultation on their Draft mental health and wellbeing strategy.5 In our latest ‘What matters to you?’ survey, just under a fifth of older people across Wales told us that their mental ... get there, I feel very isolated and sometimes desperate for human contact. It is hard when you don’t see anybody for days.’ ‘It has been extremely difficult year for me, after I lost my husband, my brother
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competing or conflicting demands/needs and interests. • Promote programme aims and objectives. • IT literate including data management. • Ability to speak Welsh (Desirable). Qualifications Relevant ... to work evenings and weekends - these will be planned in advance. Notes: • This role description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect, but rather to clearly define the fundamental purpose
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take my dog for a walk? Should I let the engineer in to repair my boiler? What can I do if my prescriptions doesn’t arrive on time? Is my carer still visiting? These were just some of the many questions that ... services and support. While some people just wanted to have a chat about the everyday things such as what they saw on television the previous night. Check in and Chat has been hugely popular and we have made
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their communities, and the support they may need. Yet most of the public sector is still failing to get to grips with what this means for services across the board, not just those in health and social care ... where an ‘age lens’ needs to be applied - major policy agendas where demographic change is a critical issue, but is often not recognised as such (eg housing and planning, transport, social exclusion, public
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This is Age Cymru’s second annual report on delays in access to social care in Wales for people aged 55 and over. Last year our dementia advocacy project, HOPE (Helping others participate and engage) ... services. Our research shows a partial but important picture of the scale of delays. We found a picture is emerging of a less healthy population in Wales after the main pandemic period, as can be seen in the
