Louise Baxter Why? Suckers/Victim Lists 300,000 names of people being targeted and responding to scams Mail Scams Telephone Scams Doorstep Crime Areas of work SCAMS are FRAUD and FRAUD is a CRIME. AKA Financial ... lonely rather than being alone is associated with an increased risk of clinical dementia in later life. Dementia makes people more vulnerable to scams. Proactive Prevention www.friendsagainstscams.org.uk Partnership
reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy ... England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation In April Ofcom
Later life in rural England Age UK is a charity that aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research. In the UK we work ... Age UKs and older people’s groups. We provide services at a local and national level including information and advice that reaches some 6 million people each year. Internationally, we support programme
” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Our research for the Payments Council in 2012 on the payment needs of the “Older Old”1 clearly showed that we travel into old age carrying the experiences and knowledge ... gathered along our life journey; and yet, by the time we arrive in later life, the landscape has changed dramatically and we all too often find ourselves feeling unfamiliar with our new surroundings. Significantly
1 Consultation response to Housing Standards Review – Technical Consultation Ref 2414 Date: October 2014 Name: Joe Oldman Email: joe.oldman@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved. Third parties ... parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice
groups 1 to 9 1. People living in a care home for older adults and their carers. 2. All those 80 years of age and older and frontline health and social care workers. 3. All those 75 years of age and over ... over. 4. All those 70 years of age and over and people who are extremely clinically vulnerable (also known as the “shielding” group – i.e. people in this group will previously have received a letter from
survey on attitudes to a secondary annuity market This briefing looks at the main findings from polling commissioned by Age UK to uncover more information about older peoples’ attitudes to cashing in an existing ... .................................................................................... 2 3. To cash in…or not to cash in?.................................................................................
Consultation Response Access to Banking Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee May 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We ... older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for
understand the information people give me about my care and support • I think I might need help but I don’t know how to go about it or what will happen next • I am not able to say what matters to me especially ... especially when lots of people are telling me what would be best for me. • I need someone independent to help me say how I feel • Sometimes I struggle to remember information, which means that making choices