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Age UK Wakefield District
With a thirty year history as a registered charity promoting the well-being of all older people, we help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience for as many people as possible. Influencing the way people think about ageing and the valuable contribution older people make to society, we also work in local partnerships to deliver services which meet community needs and are constantly seeking to improve and extend this role.
- Last updated:
- 18 August 2015
- Location:
- Yorkshire and Humber
- Sectors:
- Voluntary Sector
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Age UK Waltham Forest
Age UK is here to inspire, enable and support older people to make the most of later life. The work and support we provide at Age UK covers a number of different services, including: Information and advice We provide information or advice on anything from health to housing. We also publish impartial and informative factsheets and advice guides. Campaigns Our Public Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns teams raise awareness of the difficult situations faced by many older people and keep ageing issues in the public eye and in parliament. The issues we campaign on can vary, from calling for reform of the care system to trying to improve the bus route in our local community. Our campaigns offer lots of opportunities for us all to get involved and be heard by those who have the power to make our lives better. Commercial products Most of us want to remain independent - living in our own home for as long as possible, and keeping doing the things in life that we love the most. Our products and services are tailored to the needs of people in later life. We offer travel, motor and home insurance; funeral plans; gas and electricity packages; and aids for the home, such as stairlifts and personal alarms. Training We are a successful national training provider that reaches over 10,000 learners annually. Our training services have received recognition from Ofsted and the sector skills council Skills for Care. Our work involves the tailored provision of innovative learning solutions designed to address the needs of local people of all ages, professionals and employers throughout the UK and internationally. Specifically we offer: Apprenticeships, qualifications, short courses and skills development programmes for success at work, particularly in the social care and health sectors. Employment acquisition initiatives, ‘planning for retirement’ services and learning in later life. Specialist support for providers of services to people in later life. Research Age UK is the only UK charity to focus research funds exclusively on later life. That's because we believe that we should all be able to enjoy good health in later life, free from the diseases and disabilities associated with growing older and the consequences that they can bring about, such as social isolation, anxiety, frailty and loss of independence. The research we fund is providing answers and we've already seen significant breakthroughs in dementia, falls prevention, stroke and incontinence, to name a few.
- Last updated:
- 14 August 2015
- Location:
- London
- Sectors:
- Other
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Age UK Warwickshire
Age UK Warwickshire is a local independent Charity for over 50’s living in Warwickshire. Our Vision is a world in which later life is a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Our mission is to improve later life in Warwickshire. Our values are to empower and support older people to achieve their goals, influence by drawing strengths from the voices of older people and ensuring those voices are heard, and being caring and passionate about what we do and care about each individual. We make the best possible use of all our resources and we actively seek new opportunities, we are trusted to deliver what we say and when we say we will. At Age UK Warwickshire we are experienced, knowledgeable and professional in all that we do. We are respectful and treat others as they would want to be treated with dignity and respect.
- Last updated:
- 21 September 2015
- Location:
- West Midlands
- Sectors:
- Voluntary Sector
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Age UK West Cumbria (Keswick)
Our aim is to ensure that people living in Allerdale and Copeland can maintain their independence through informed choice, social activities and person centred services in later years. Age is different for everyone and, of course, the challenges and the demands are different for everyone, too. At Age UK West Cumbria, we are many things to many people – a source of advice, information, companionship and support.
- Last updated:
- 31 July 2017
- Sectors:
- Other
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Age UK West Cumbria (Workington)
Enables people to be as independent as possible and love later life.
- Last updated:
- 31 July 2017
- Sectors:
- Care, Communication, Health, Retail, Transport Sector, Voluntary
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Age UK West Sussex
Our vision, a world in which older people flourish. Our mission, to improve the lives of older people in West Sussex. We are a charity and a social enterprise driven by the needs and aspirations of people in later life. We share the vision and the mission with a federation of organisations nationwide and with Age UK, the largest organisation working for older people in the UK. We area Brand Partner with Age UK
- Last updated:
- 11 May 2019
- Location:
- South East
- Sectors:
- Charity, Local DAA Members, Voluntary, Voluntary Sector
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Age UK Winchester
Age UK Winchester is an independent local charity, providing support for older people, their families and their carers, in the Winchester area. We are affiliated to national Age UK. We offer Information and Advice (including help with setting up Power of Attorney), a Help at Home service, Befriending, and run Lunch Clubs.
- Last updated:
- 14 August 2015
- Sectors:
- Voluntary Sector
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Age UK Wirral
We are a local and independent Brand Partner of Age UK, working across the Borough of Wirral to provide a wide range of services, activities and interventions, primarily to older people, that make a positive difference to later life. Our work includes dementia support services, befriending, gardening and odd jobs, active age, residential care home, lunch clubs, home from hospital support, counselling, information and advice, welfare benefits, campaigning, community development and much more.
- Last updated:
- 16 January 2017
- Location:
- North West
- Sectors:
- Care, Charity, Community organisations, Domiciliary Care, Health, Local Authorities, Local DAA Members, Retail, Social Care, Voluntary Sector
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Age UK Wolverhampton
Age UK Wolverhampton works to promote the well-being of older people and help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Our aim is to make life better for older people. These objectives are achieved through a range of services for older people across the City including Information and Advice, Help at Home, Telephone Befriending, Digital Inclusion, and one to one support during difficult times including Home from Hospital. We support people to remain independent, deal with money worries, reduce isolation and increase social opportunities or provide support during difficult times. We work with and for older people in areas of high multiple deprivation and across diverse communities. Our clients are often those living on low incomes, people who are socially isolated and those whose continuing independence is at risk.
- Last updated:
- 27 July 2015
- Location:
- West Midlands
- Sectors:
- Health, Voluntary Sector
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Age Watch
We’re a new not-for-profit organization, launched in 2011. • We aim to help adults across the UK enjoy better health throughout their lives. • We aim to achieve this by helping them make informed lifestyle choices based on medical and scientific evidence and free from advertising or commercial sponsorship. Changes in lifestyles and pensions mean future generations could face the prospect of many years of retirement in poor physical and financial health. Hence the importance of acting now, before it is too late.
- Last updated:
- 10 February 2016
- Location:
- National
- Sectors:
- Health, Membership Organisations
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Ageing with Optimism
Ageing with Optimism is here to help you get the very best out of growing old. We aim to be realistic, so we use terms such as ‘old’, ‘death’ and ‘dementia.’ But we are also optimistic. Optimism derives from the Latin optimum meaning ‘best’. Being optimistic means getting the best possible outcome from any given situation. We will help you confront the issues you can face in old age head on and take active and constructive steps to achieve the best possible outcome.
- Last updated:
- 17 March 2018
- Location:
- East of England
- Sectors:
- Care, Health, Hospitals and Hospital Trusts, Legal, Medical, Voluntary Sector
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AgeUK Barnsley One Stop shop
AgeUK Barnsley are a charity who are concerned with promoting the well-being, fulfilment and happiness of older people living in the Barnsley area. Our main Age UK Barnsley Centre is already a member of the DAA so we consider it important that we make our two charity shops and our one stop shop members too. A representative from our organisation attends the Barnsley DDA meetings and the Barnsley Multi agency forum these will help us establish what actions are important for local people. Then we can consider what we as an organisation can do towards them.
- Last updated:
- 29 May 2018
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AgeUK Barnsley Wombwell Shop
AgeUK Barnsley are a charity who are concerned with promoting the well-being, fulfilment and happiness of older people living in the Barnsley area. Our main Age UK Barnsley Centre is already a member of the DAA so we consider it important that we make our two charity shops and our one stop shop members too. A representative from our organisation attends the Barnsley DDA meetings and the Barnsley Multi agency forum these will help us establish what actions are important for local people. Then we can consider what we as an organisation can do towards them.
- Last updated:
- 29 May 2018
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Agewell CIC
Agewell’s mission is to be “the trusted voice of older people and to advocate for a more valued role in our society.” Agewell ensures that the needs of older people are heard when decisions are made on the provision of services which affect them. Agewell look at issues which affect older people’s quality of life, such as equality, housing, health, safety and transport. Our initiatives actively tackle community involvement and activation, social isolation and deprivation. To achieve this, we actively work in partnership with local older people and the agencies that provide their services to ensure they are designed and delivered to the highest possible standard and in an appropriate manner.
- Last updated:
- 28 July 2016
- Location:
- West Midlands
- Sectors:
- Health, Charity, Community organisations, Social Care, Voluntary, Voluntary Sector
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Ainger Holbrows Ltd
Established in 1991, Ainger Holbrows Ltd are a family-run business selling new and used cars for over 25 years. We have a modern workshop to carry out services, repairs, MOTs, tyre replacements, engine diagnostics, body work, welding, laser wheel alignment, battery replacements and air-conditioning servicing.
- Last updated:
- 21 April 2016
- Location:
- East of England
- Sectors:
- Transport Sector
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Ainsdale Medical Centre
We are a General Practitioners Surgery who have two Dementia Champions and a full compliment of Dementia Friends staff. We have held Sessions for other surgery staff and are due to hold another one for local business people. We pride ourselves on our commitment to supporting and promoting awareness of Dementia in all areas of our daily routine.
- Last updated:
- 24 June 2016
- Location:
- North West
- Sectors:
- Health, Medical
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Ainsdale Village Surgery
Ainsdale Village Surgery is a GP surgery, with a partnership of 2 GP's which provide primary care to approximately 3100 patients in the local area. All members of staff have been Dementia Friends since March 2016. We are committed to promoting awareness of dementia and supporting patients with dementia and their carers.
- Last updated:
- 11 November 2017
- Location:
- North West
- Sectors:
- Commissioners Sector, Health
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Aintree University Hospital
Aintree Hospital is part of a newly merged organisation, which brings together Aintree, the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Dental Hospital. By coming together, we can combine the best part of each organisation to do what is right for our local population. This is our opportunity to shape the future of health and care within our city region and to achieve all of the potential benefits that the merger presents. Aintree is a large teaching hospital within Liverpool University Hospitals and serves a population of around 330,000 in North Liverpool, South Sefton and Kirkby. Dementia is a term used to describe a range of cognitive and behavioural symptoms that can include memory loss, problems with reasoning and communication and change in personality, and a reduction in a person's ability to carry out daily activities, such as shopping, washing, dressing and cooking. The most common types of dementia are: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia. Dementia is a progressive condition, which means that the symptoms will gradually get worse. This progression will vary from person to person and each will experience dementia in a different way – people may often have some of the same general symptoms, but the degree to which these affect each person will vary. A report published by the Alzheimer's Society found that in 2013 there were approximately 815,000 people living with dementia in the UK. If current trends continue, this number is expected to increase to 1,143,000 by 2025. In England, the National Dementia and Antipsychotic Prescribing Audit found that approximately 31,000 people were newly diagnosed with dementia in 2011. This is an increase of 8% between 2006 and 2011. Finally, in December 2017, there were 456,739 people on GP registers with a formal diagnosis of dementia, up from approximately 290,000 people in 2009/10, with the majority of this difference accounted for by an increase in diagnosis rates.
- Last updated:
- 20 October 2019
- Location:
- North West
- Sectors:
- Care, Emergency Services Sector, Health, Hospitals and Hospital Trusts
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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS hospital trust. We provide high quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Our vision is to be the hospital chosen by the community for putting patients first, providing excellent, innovative and diverse services, delivering safe standards of care, all underpinned by the constant pursuit of efficiency.
- Last updated:
- 21 February 2017
- Location:
- Yorkshire and Humber
- Sectors:
- Health, Care, Hospitals and Hospital Trusts
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Airedale Shopping Centre
The Airedale shopping centre is the main covered shopping area within Keighley and provides over 80 retail and food outlets with a 425 space multi-story car park. It is located adjacent to the bus station and local market and is the hub for the town centre as a thoroughfare and meeting point for the community. The centre provides public toilets, mall seating and community services for local charities and organisations, religious groups and agencies to support local initiatives and events
- Last updated:
- 14 August 2015
- Location:
- Yorkshire and Humber
- Sectors:
- Retail
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Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group
Membership of the CCG is made up of 16 GP practices working together to plan and commission local health services for a population of 156,000. We cover two local authority areas and aim to be a leading CCG through successful integration and transformation of health and social care, the introduction of innovative, improved clinical pathways, sound financial management and a model employer, developing future clinical leaders. Our CCG has been identified as a national integrated care pioneer site. It is developing new models of care so people in the CCG’s area receive individual seamless care, reducing their need for urgent and unplanned care by proactively managing their physical, psychological and social care needs. The CCG new models of care programme is looking at new ways of working in different areas of health and social care, including the four projects below: • complex care • enhanced care • wrap around care • self -care Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven is one of 25 of the national Pioneer sites acting as an exemplars to address local barriers to delivering integrated care and support locally, and highlight national barriers that national partners can work to address. We are supporting the rapid dissemination, promotion and uptake of lessons across the country and receive support to breaking down these barriers from the national partners.
- Last updated:
- 23 January 2017
- Location:
- Yorkshire and Humber
- Sectors:
- Clinical Commissioning Group
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AJB Care Ltd
We are a domiciliary care organisation, who delivers care and support to people living in their own homes across the Barnsley borough. As well as responding to call outs via the central call life line system
- Last updated:
- 2 August 2017
- Location:
- Yorkshire and Humber
- Sectors:
- Care, Domiciliary Care
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Akademi
Akademi is the UK's leading South Asian dance charity, working with young people in schools and communities of all ages and abilities across London, inspiring their creativity, encouraging their academic achievement and widening their aspirations. We support young artists to realise their potential and develop as professional performers and cultural leaders through debate, experiment, training and work experience. We treasure the heritage of South Asian dance, the wisdom of experienced artists and provide a powerhouse of knowledge and expertise that we are keen to share widely. Akademi’s Dance Well project works with older adults in the borough of Camden to enhance their physical and mental wellbeing through movement and dance, including those with poor long term health and those living with dementia.
- Last updated:
- 28 July 2016
- Location:
- London
- Sectors:
- Arts, Charity, Education Sector, Health, Schools, Social Care
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Al Hikmah Centre
Our vision is to represent the community at all levels with a mission to enhance the economic, social and spiritual, health & well being of the community in particular the community living in the IMWS catchment areas in Kirklees. We promote social cohesion / inclusion and tackle deprivation. We improve community representation and engagement with mainstream service providers and facilitate interfaith relations to promote a positive image of Muslims and work to meet the specific needs of members e.g. cultural, religious and other minorities. Our organisation has a 4 ½ Acre Site (Al-Hikmah Centre) at Batley with various conference, meeting and sports facilities. We employ approximately 14 core members of staff. We have an active volunteer management structure. We have active media communications and publish an in-house free monthly tri-lingual magazine “Paigaam” (Message) and run an online Radio Station called “Radio IMWS”
- Last updated:
- 8 September 2016
- Sectors:
- Arts, Care, Communication, Health, Hospitality, Membership Organisations, Recreation, Voluntary Sector, Other
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Alan Miller Opticians
Alan Miller Opticians offers friendly and professional eye care services. As a small community practice, we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for customers.
- Last updated:
- 19 September 2016
- Location:
- North West
- Sectors:
- Retail