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  1. Age UK Response to UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty - September 2018 (PDF)

    Consultation Response The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland September 18, 2018 Reference No. 3918 ... by providing advice and support. It also researches and campaigns on the issues that matter most to older people. Its work focuses on ensuring that older people: have enough money; enjoy life and feel

  2. Age UK Response to Women and Equalities Committee Consultation on Equality Act Implementation (PDF)

    by providing advice and support. It also researches and campaigns on the issues that matter most to older people. Its work focuses on ensuring that older people: have enough money; enjoy life and feel ... initiatives to strengthen older people’s rights, including steps towards the development of a UN Convention on the Rights of Older People. How easy it is for people to understand and enforce their rights under

  3. Financial resilience during retirement – stage one: literature review and expert (PDF 853)

    collaborateresearch.co.uk Financial resilience during retirement – Stage 1 research Report based on a rapid evidence review and expert interviews Prepared for: November 2017 Financial resilience ... Service Financial Capability Strategy for the UK includes a strand of work that is specifically focused on older people in retirement (OPIR). Age UK has commissioned this research to address an evidence gap

  4. Scamming and its effect on vulnerable individuals - Sept 16 (PDF)

    1 Scamming and its effect on vulnerable individuals September 2016 Age UK believes that nobody should live in fear of crime; police, Government and industry should take action to prevent crimes targeted ... been successfully scammed is often targeted repeatedly and put on ‘suckers lists’ which are shared between scammers. For an older person on a fixed income, a scam can have a devastating financial and emotional

  5. Fear of crime and its effects on older people: comparing six countries - Mar 14 (PDF)

    FEAR OF CRIME AND ITS EFFECTS ON OLDER PEOPLE: COMPARING SIX COUNTRIES. Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Sutapa Agrawal Research about older people from the UK and other high income countries shows that fear ... the SAGE survey is available at www.who.int/healthinfo/systems/sage. This policy brief mainly draws on two items in the questionnaire: i. In general, how safe from crime and violence do you feel when you

  6. Impact of COVID-19 on older people's health_one year on.pdf

    1 Impact of Covid-19 on older people’s mental and physical health: one year on Age UK is a registered charity (number 1128267) and a company limited by guarantee (number 6825798). The registered address ... Inequalities 21 8. Unpaid carers 24 3 1. Introduction This report explores the impact of the pandemic on older people’s physical and mental health eleven months after Covid-19 arrived and turned all our lives

  7. A report on the economic contribution of older people in the UK

    We extrapolated the results to the total population by age, using the population estimates by the ONS. To obtain a monetary value of these informal caregiving activities, we used the median hourly pay ... 2 Contribution from Childcare We used data from Wave 7 (2017) of the Understanding Society survey on informal childcare by people aged 65 or over. The data include questions about provision of childcare

  8. Age UK's response to the NICE guideline on decision-making and mental capacity

    Decision making and mental capacity Consultation on draft guideline – deadline for comments 5pm on Monday 5 February 2018 email: mentalcapacity@nice.org.uk Please return to: mentalcapacity@nice ... hear your views on the draft recommendations presented in the short version and any comments you may have on the evidence presented in the full version. We would also welcome views on the Equality Impact

  9. Briefing: Universal Credit and couples if one is over Pension Credit age Oct 12 (PDF)

    Universal Credit and couples if one is over Pension Credit age October 2012 The Welfare Reform Act 2012 changes the way that couples are treated within the benefits system when one is over the qualifying age ... benefit support. This paper looks at the impact of the proposed reforms. Key points  Couples where one partner has reached Pension Credit age and the other is younger could receive £100 less a week under

  10. Ideas for older men on how to beat loneliness and isolation - May 19 (PDF)

    groups for older men. Messages from the Older Men at the Margins project 2016-2019 Ideas for older men on how to beat loneliness and isolation We all feel lonely sometimes. Sadly, it’s something lots of us ... winter months when long evenings make it harder to leave the house. Loneliness can have a big impact on both our physical and mental health. It’s really important to try to talk to someone about it. •

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