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

    million older people each year 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 ... systemic barriers to bringing a claim under the Act such as a lack of public understanding, legal aid cuts and (prior to their abolition) Employment Tribunal fees, as well as poor implementation arising

  2. 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 ... Executive summary 1.1 Introduction The Money Advice 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Age UK response to the UN Working Group on Ageing - March 2018 (PDF)

    Consultation Response UN Call for Submissions for the ninth session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing 22 March 2018 1318 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this ... preparation for the ninth session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG) in July 2018. The call is for substantive inputs on the two new focus areas of Long term and palliative care, and Independence

  6. Age UK Response to EHRC Consultation on Age Supplement - May 2014 (PDF)

    Consultation Response Public consultation on the Draft Age Supplement to the Services, Public Functions and Associations Statutory Code of Practice Ref: 514 Date: May 2014 All rights reserved ... is unlawful to treat someone. Although most provisions in the Act came into effect in 2010, the ban on age discrimination in services, public functions and associations did not come into force until October

  7. 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

  8. 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. •

  9. Living on a low income in later life - Oct 11 (PDF)

    Living on a low income in later life Katherine Hill Liz Sutton Donald Hirsch Centre for Research in Social Policy Loughborough University October 2011 Copyright © Age UK 2011 ISBN 978-0-9568731-2-5 The ... Registered charity number 1128267 1Living on a low income in later life Contents Acknowledgements 3 Key findings 4 Getting by in later life: an overview of living on a low income 6 Introduction 14 Report structure

  10. 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

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