stronger actions to ensure older people can remove hazards, such as trip hazards, poor lighting and damp from leaking pipes or broken guttering, from their homes and ensure they are warm and dry. It should ... as well as evidence on the impact of falls and other accidentsvi. Non-decent housing that is cold, damp, hazardous and inaccessible impacts on both the physical and mental health of older people. It creates
a couple to sleep separately if one is unwell, for work or having friends and family to stay. A survey of new home buyers over the age of 55 showed under a quarter chose to buy a home with two bedrooms ... to get adaptations and bidding for adapted social properties can take over a year too. 10 In a survey of Information and Advice managers working in local Age UKs across the country, 92% said they came
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uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=341 3 TNS Agenda for Later Life survey for Age UK, 2015 4 TNS Tracker Survey for Age UK, Feb 2015, of adults aged 50+ in Great Britain 5 Older people’s experiences ... of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays: Secondary data analysis using the Adult Inpatient Survey, Vizard, P., Burchardt, T., LSE, 2015 6 http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/
income in retirement. In this issue we report the results from the first wave of a new Age UK Economic Survey, showing what older people think about their current economic situation. This is presented alongside ... earnings before tax for employees aged 50-59, 60 and above, and all employees source: ONs, Annual survey of hours and Earnings, 2012 Glossary of indicators Here are the key indicators that we monitor. together
number of these factors, and this turned out to be a survey called Understanding Society. We then matched the factors to the questions asked in the survey, and 87 of them were covered. Some of these questions ... aged 60 and over were nonwhite, or questions on sexual orientation and volunteering). As with any survey, Understanding Society did not ask every question we would like to know about (such as questions
1 Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Adult Health in Great Britain 2012, 2014 2 Feet for Purpose? Age Concern, 2007 3 Dementia Advisers Survey: Survey of provision of dementia adviser services
choices of frequency. Results are then given for those who say “often” (in Age UK survey, in line with Victor’s survey questions “often” or “always”). What is ELSA and why are we using it? ELSA is properly ... size) and output area (street/ postcode level). As the information is from a Census rather than a survey, the usual problems of sample size, disclosure/ anonymity and minority-group representativeness do