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VALUED,
INVOLVED AND FULFILLED DOESN’T
EVERYONE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE?
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Everyday with your support of Charities@Work, Help the
Aged works tirelessly to ensure that older people live with dignity,
security and independence.
The Charity’s four main aims are:-
Reduce Isolation
Older people should be free to be as active and
involved as they choose to be
But our research reveals a different reality
- older people trapped at home or even homeless, isolated from friends
and family, living in fear and losing their independence.
We are giving older people their independence back
though:-
- Speaking Up for Our Age, supporting older people’s groups;
- SeniorMobility, providing transport
- Campaigning for free travel for all over 60
- Researching the illnesses associated with ageing
I
was lonely, insecure and frightened.
Now, I want to live until I’m 100. A
woman of 93 finds support through an
Adopt a Granny centre
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Defeat Ageism
Society throws older people on the scrapheap. And we
are all poorer for it. Older people have the right to stand up and be
counted. Society does not have the right to silence them.
Help the Aged campaigns to change:-
- The law, by influencing government
- Public perceptions, by challenging media images of older
people
- Young people’s attitudes, by working with schools
| It has changed my life
completely A woman
of 51 returns to work after 17 years, with the help of our Third
Age Employment Network
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Combat poverty
Older people should have enough money to lead active
lives.
But far too many can barely afford to survive. We
campaign for older people to have adequate incomes as a right, not a privilege.
We work to:-
- Achieve better pensions
- Ensure older people claim full benefits
- Prevent them from dying from winter cold
- Support the poorest older people everywhere
Your
very practical advice helped my aunt to live happily during the
last year of her life.
A grateful caller thanks our SeniorLine
advisers.
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Promote Quality in Care
Receiving care shouldn’t cost older people their dignity
or independence.
Whether it’s delivered in hospitals, care homes
or older people’s own homes, we are fighting for all health and social
care to be:-
- Of the highest quality
- Free
- Consistently applied
- Adequately funded
Life
is grand. I feel like I can see a new world
A woman of 68 regains her sight with
treatment
part-funded by Help the Aged
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How your gift can help
- £5 buys a pendant connected to a SeniorLink telephone
response unit, ensuring that an older person can get help or someone
to talk to, even if they cannot get to the phone
- £35 pays for a Bogus Caller button which, when
connected to a SeniorLink unit, allows an older person to check the
credentials of doorstep callers via the SeniorLink call centre
- £100 is the average cost of a HandyVan visit to
make an older person’s home safe and secure with spy holes, door and
window locks and smoke detectors
- £200 buys a SeniorLink telephone response unit, providing
safety, security and independence for an older person living alone
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