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  1. TCS London Marathon charity places

    people's lives What you’ll get from Age UK First class 1-1 personal support with your fundraising and training  The loudest cheering squads on the route to get you to the finish line A fantastic post-race ... there for them. When they've lost the person they love the most, we're there to help them find the strength to carry on. When an older person is forced to live in a freezing house because they're worried

  2. Why it's time to act now to age better

    “I’ve summarised the evidence behind longevity and shared practical strategies to help you train for your 70-year-old self,” he says. ANAB leaflet download Listening to the voices of experience ... ” June, 79 I don’t use a car anymore; I have to carry shopping. And that is weight training, if you like, without using actual weights. It’s all good exercise. Trevor enjoys weekly line-dancing

  3. Domestic abuse: more needs to be done to support older people

    Violence is an annual campaign that runs from 25 November, the International Day of Violence against Women, to 10 December, which is International Human Rights Day.  Older people are often overlooked ... abuse. But domestic abuse can happen at any age. Crime Survey figures show that in 2019 over 189,000 women in the UK between the ages of 16 and 74 reported that they had experienced domestic abuse –

  4. The best friends who have never met

    calls more! Flora is a loving, positive person and is a joy to talk to.” Going from strength to strength Flora and Wendy are clearly one another’s biggest fans – Wendy calls Flora “my ... from strength to strength because we see each other's families as our own families,” says Wendy. “My Dad passed away a few months ago and Flora was as devastated as I was. Her strength and faith

  5. How important is creative and cultural participation to our wellbeing?

    were important for everyone. 'It was one of the best things I've ever done' Women tend to participate more than men. Women are much more likely to take part in dance, craft and literary activities, and ... wide range of creative events and activities across Scotland from care home artist residencies to training for older emerging artists. Age Cymru's Gwanwyn Festival is a national month-long festival held

  6. Embracing at-home exercise

    benefits Following the pandemic, Lavina’s online programme has continued to go from strength to strength. “I’ve carried on the weekly Friday workouts with my mother-in-law, who’s ... “Even when I qualified at the age of 40, there weren’t really any other South Asian women over the age of 40 I could see doing this – or at least no one on social media. Diabetes and

  7. Ageism in the workplace

    your employment including recruitment, employment terms and conditions, promotions and transfers, training and dismissals. The Equality Act protects you from direct discrimination, indirect discrimination ... will not promote you because you’re 'too old'. Indirect discrimination If your employer offers a training course only to recent graduates, this could constitute indirect discrimination, as it could exclude

  8. New data on domestic abuse in older people

    gradually coming into the light. People tend to think of victim-survivors of domestic abuse as young women, often with young children. However, at Age UK we know that there are gaps in the data, which reinforce ... that there should be no upper age limit on who they asked about domestic abuse and started asking women and men of all ages whether they had been subjected to domestic abuse in their Crime Survey for England

  9. Don't turn a blind eye to abuse in older people

    family. She doesn’t know how to use a computer, let alone access the internet for help. Older women like Grace face significant barriers to accessing support during ‘normal’ times. This ... as this abuse is, many older women don’t even recognise what they have experienced as abuse, and consider abuse to be ‘something that happens to younger women'. The attention on coronavirus’

  10. What we know now about older victims of domestic abuse

    be the result of a head injury or non-fatal strangulation, according to SafeLives , which offers training in this area to professionals. Who are these older victims? Among older victims, 3 in 10 are male ... and other family members, as well as partners. The data on domestic homicides tells us that older women are most at risk from their partners or former partners, while older men are most at risk from their

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