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  1. Health Care and Cash _ Age UK.pdf

    from. These are issues that may have never been picked up before coronavirus – a lack of self-care, abuse or suicidal people – and desperately need measures in place to help. The pandemic has shone a light

  2. Age UK Response to EHRC Legal Strategy - December 2014 (PDF)

    particularly to principles (ii) prevent equality and human rights abuses and proactively tackle continuing equality and human rights abuses; (iv) where EHRC 3 uniquely placed to act or can act best in partnership;

  3. RB_Jan16_Predicting_the_prevalence_of_loneliness_at_older_ages.pdf

    findings from exploratory work suggest that loneliness would be more prevalent among ethnic minority elders than in the general population in England (Victor et al, 2012). However, ethnicity was not included ... Paúl, C.; Fonseca, AM; Martín, I; and Amado, J. (2003). Psychosocial profile of rural and urban elders in Portugal. European Psychologist, 8(3):160-167 Perissinotto C, Stijacic Cenzer I and Covinsky KE

  4. Consultation response - Access to Cash, HM Treasury.pdf

    and those on low incomes, but those that are disabled, digitally excluded, or victims of domestic abuse. These and other vulnerable circumstances, whether temporary or enduring, which can make someone more ... the tsunami of fraud that all citizens are exposed to, as well as distressing cases of financial abuse often perpetrated by those closest to vulnerable people. • Opening new/additional accounts, especially

  5. Factsheet - How to resolve problems and complain about social care (PDF)

    dealt appropriately with your issue. Safeguarding from abuse and neglect If you, or someone you know, is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect, you should raise a safeguarding concern with ... the local authority. For more information, see Age UK factsheet 78, Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect. If the person lacks mental capacity Where a complainant lacks mental capacity, any decision

  6. 'You can’t bank on it any more' - The impact of the rise of online banking on older people, May 2023.pdf

    lower income families or individuals who rely on cash for budgeting, and survivors fleeing domestic abuse also often being reliant on cash. This may become even more important as the current cost of living ... his branch of Lloyds.” Member of the Age UK Policy Sounding Board. Similarly, the risk of financial abuse, which can be made easier by online banking is of concern to many older people. While the banks have

  7. Factsheet - Trans issues and later life (PDF)

    Page 21 of 30 Hate crimes can involve physical attacks, verbal abuse, domestic abuse, harassment, damage to your property, bullying, or graffiti. Reporting an offence as a hate ... for LGBT+ people and offers advocacy support to help tackle discrimination, hate crime, or domestic abuse. General Register Office www.gov.uk/general-register-office Telephone 0300 123 1837 The register holds

  8. RB_May16_CPA_rapid_review_Diversity_in_older_age_Refugees_and_asylum_seekers.pdf

    Strangers on our shores, New Age 20 (Winter) : 22-24 McCarthy M; Northern Refugee Centre (1995) Elders in exile: a Northern Refugee Centre report on the needs of elderly refugees based on research by ... mass, JAMA 302 : 537549 Strumpf N E, Glicksman A, Goldberg-Glen R S (et al) (2001) Caregiver and elder experiences of Cambodian, Vietnamese, Soviet Jewish and Ukrainian refugees, International Journal

  9. FS59 LP How to resolve problems and complain about social care.pdf

    dealt appropriately with your issue. Safeguarding from abuse and neglect If you, or someone you know, is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect, you should raise a safeguarding concern with ... the local authority. For more information, see Age UK factsheet 78, Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect. Note Judicial review is a specialised area of the law. If considering proceedings, it

  10. FS16 LP Trans issues and later life.pdf

    by a hostility to transgender people.’ Hate crimes can involve physical attacks, verbal abuse, domestic abuse, harassment, damage to your property, bullying, or graffiti. Reporting an offence as a hate ... for LGBT+ people and offers advocacy support to help tackle discrimination, hate crime, or domestic abuse. General Register Office www.gov.uk/general-register-office Telephone 0300 123 1837 The register holds

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