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FREE Please take one EnSprING 2015gAGE How Do I Doorstep Administer Crime an Estate? Human Men in Rights Sheds and Older People WHAT’S ON + IN THE KITCHEN + BEREAVEMENT BENEFITS + QUIZ + MUCH MORE • All our homes offer Nursing, • The comfortable welcoming lounges Convalescence, Respite, Dementia, overlook well- tended gardens or picturesque waterway Personal/Residential care services and have modern facilities • We host regular visits from local GP, chiropodist, optician, dentist, • Our spacious en-suite rooms are physiotherapist, hairdresser tastefully decorated and furnished and churches/ministers to a very high standard • Dedicated Activities Co-ordinators & regularly organised trips and outings • We have plenty of fully qualified nursing staff, with 24 hour care • Our meals are home cooked & specialist nurse call systems and we cater for special diets ALEXANDRA HOUSE BELLE VUE LODGE MELBOURNE HOUSE Eastwood, NG16 3GP Mapperley, NG3 5FS Aspley, NG8 5RU “Thankfully the care from you all gave me so much more time with Mum than I ever hoped for. She called her room her flat and made it her home, she loved it. She was so fond of all of you, I can’t thank you enough” PARK HOUSE Pat & Family Our latest home is Canal VUE Bulwell, NG6 8SB Ilkeston, Derby DE7 8JF Eastgate Care established local company 25 years in the care business EngAGE CONTENTS SprING 2015 17 26 10 11 CONTENTS LIST SpRING 2015 Human Rights and Bereavement Benefits . 12 Men in Sheds Opens Older People . 6 Financial matters that arise for Older Men . 24 Human Rights Act and its implications. when someone close dies. A project that brings older men together to share skills and socialise Money and Legal Advice . 8 Easter . 14 opens in Daybrook, Nottingham. Free money advice and legal advice. History of Easter. Doorstep Crime . 26 In the Kitchen . 10 How Do I Administer What you can do to stop bogus Light, creamy tasting and refreshing an Estate? . .. 16 callers and rogue traders. dessert – Apple Snow. Some practical advice by James Bolton on administering an estate. General Elections and Coffee Morning . 10 Dissolution of Parliament . 28 Derby Coffee Morning In the Community . 20 The processes a general election triggers. celebrated its fifth birthday. Age UK Derby & Derbyshire and Age UK Notts in action near you. What’s On . 30 In the Garden . 11 Local events and activities across Top 5 tips to prepare your garden Kindred Spirits Celebrates Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. for Spring. its 20th Anniversary . 21 Kindred Spirits gives people the Remembering Yesterday . 31 opportunities to make friends and socialise. An update on a project where members record their life story. 4 | SPRING 2015 www.ageuk.org.uk/derbyandderbyshire Meet the Foreword team… from the Editor Angel Child Editor 0115 841 4472 [email protected] Age UK Nottingham Welcome to & Nottinghamshire Engage, the Bradbury House, 12 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham NG1 4FQ first issue of 0115 844 0011 our magazine [email protected] – a joint effort www.ageuknotts.org.uk between Age 6 Twitter: @ageuknotts Facebook: facebook.com/ageuknotts UK Derby & Derbyshire and Age UK Age UK Derby & Derbyshire Nottingham & Nottinghamshire . 29a Market Place, Heanor, Derbyshire DE75 7EG This magazine is for people 01773 768 240 administration@ in later life and those who ageukderbyandderbyshire.org.uk want to know more about our www.ageuk.org.uk/derbyandderbyshire organisations . There will be 4 Twitter: @AgeUK_DD editions per year, each packed Facebook: facebook.com/ageukderbyderbyshire with informative, exciting Designer and interesting articles . 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Angel Child Editor www.ageuknotts.org.uk SPRING 2015 | 5 EngAGE Human Rights and Older People We do not normally equate older people living in the UK with the Human Rights Act . Yet we should all be mindful that the Human Rights Act applies to everyone of any age and that they are just as applicable to an older person living in the UK as anywhere else in the world . Human Rights are the minimum standards each and every one of us should set ourselves to ensure those we live alongside are treated fairly, justly and with respect and dignity in equal measures regardless of who they are or whatever they have done . We often see Human Rights being demonised in our media making us think that human rights have no value. This confusion is due to extreme headlines and stories such as war criminals cannot be deported due to breaching their human rights or axemen must be given the vote. It is very rare that we see the true stories Article 2: Right to life; Article 3: Right not because it may upset other residents of how older people are helped by Human to be tortured or treated in an inhuman or or staff. Article 5 could relate to locking Rights, such as the daughter arguing degrading way; Article 4: Right to be free windows and doors so residents can’t that her father should be treated rather from slavery or forced labour; Article 5: come and go where there is no legal or than just let slip away by the doctor just Right to liberty; Article 6: Right to a fair practical reason. Article 3 could be being because of his age or individuals and trial; Article 7: Right to no punishment left in soiled clothing for long periods organisations insisting that care workers without law; Article 8: Right to respect of time due to neglect by care staff. and other professional staff should be for private and family life, home and treating older people with dignity and correspondence; Article 9: Right to It is not easy translating human rights respect when providing care or when freedom of thought, conscience and into practical situations and partly due challenging those significant decisions religion; Article 10: Right to freedom of to negative media presentations of being made on behalf of older people expression; Article 11: Right to freedom the use of human rights, it is taking by those who think they know best. of assembly and association; Article a long time to embed human rights 12: Right to marry and found a family; into health and social care practice Human Rights should not be demonised or Article 14: Right not to be discriminated and for it to be understood as a brushed under the carpet. They are there against in relation to any of the rights. positive way to bring about change. to be used to protect older people and the most vulnerable and are an important tool, The hardest bit for most people is For more information regarding not only for them, but anyone advocating translating the language of the Articles older people and their human rights on their behalf to secure their rights. The into how we can help older people secure Human Rights Act enables anyone to their rights. This is where we need to look checkout the British Institute of challenge our public authorities who might at each Article and translate it into what Human Rights or Age UK’s website be or are breaching an older person’s is happening to the person whose rights which hold and signpost to a number rights. Public authorities under the Act are being possibly breached. For example, of other good resources. If you’re have a duty to investigate breaches and Article 8 could relate to care staff opening interested in joining a Human Rights be proactive to ensure a person’s human and reading an older person’s post without Group then the Seen Ya Rights Group rights are respected, protected and upheld.

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