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Website: www.peterlemarchanttrust.co.uk Telephone: 01509 265590 supporting older people for over 50 years SPring 2019 | 3 Meet the Foreword from the Team… Executive Director Editor Tessa Trace We are living longer than ever medical science have given Tel: 0116 222 0560 before and the age profile us the gift of longevity, so far Email: [email protected] of our society is changing this century we have failed to Age UK Leicester rapidly. The number of respond with sufficiently radical Shire & Rutland people aged 65 and over action to ensure everyone Head Office, Lansdowne House will increase by more than enjoys these extra years. 113 Princess Road East 40% within 20 years, and the Leicester, LE1 7LA 21 Tel: 0116 299 2233 number of households where The challenges faced by Fax: 0116 299 2244 the oldest person is 85 and increasing numbers of Email: [email protected] over is increasing faster than older people will have dire any other age group. 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Most people in later Bath Road, Kettering, NN16 8NL Tel: 01536 334222 life report feeling connected The fact that we are living Email: [email protected] to their communities, longer is a great achievement www.lanceprint.co.uk families and friends but but making the most of huge inequalities exist. these extra years requires Printer fundamental changes across Lance Print Ltd However, as we get older, society. Without a radical Tel: (01733) 390564 the steady accumulation of rethink from the Government, a lifetime of advantages or businesses and charities, more disadvantages, together with people risk missing out on a differences such as in our good later life. There is much 09 29 16 ethnicity, in where we live, to gain if we take action now, and in our income, results but also much to lose if we fail. in vastly unequal levels of Puzzle Page . 18 Answers and solutions health, wealth, happiness and Tony Donovan Get your thinking caps on for puzzle page . 23 security in later life. And there Executive Director, This magazine is produced on behalf of Age Contents List Spring 2019 for our Sudoku, quiz and How did you do? UK Leicester Shire & Rutland by Lance Print are worrying trends for the Age UK Leicester Ltd. All rights are reserved by the charity and wordsearch. no part of this publication may be reproduced future. For example, earlier Shire & Rutland in whole or in part without the written progress made in reducing Food with Friendship . 06 Home Care . 10 Our Services Retail . .24 permission of the charity. Age UK Leicester (source: www. Lunch will be provided, Do you need a little extra help? & Projects . 14 EngAGE Business . 19 Why using a Charity shop Shire & Rutland will accept no responsibility pensioner poverty is ageing-better.org. for, or necessarily agree with, any claims made uk/state-of-ageing) providing you make it! Age UK Leicester Shire Get the most out of later life Corporate fundraising news. helps the environment. or views expressed in this publication, nor beginning to reverse. does the mention of any product, service or and Rutland offer a variety with the wide array of advertisement imply a recommendation by Age Volunteering . 08 of practical services to support we offer locally. FUNdraising . 21 What’s On . 26 UK Leicester Shire & Rutland. Age UK Leicester While the twentieth Shire & Rutland Limited, Registered Charity One of our volunteers tells support you. Information on fundraising Activities & events No: 1146649, Limited Company No: 7844309 century’s advances in us about her experience Mods of Leicester . 16 activities you can get happening around the city public health, Volunteering for our Information and A new book, an exhibition involved with. and counties. nutrition book shop in Oadby. Advice . 12 and a two-week festival and Latest news items and about the 1960s Mod Transport . 23 Women in Sheds . 28 News Round Up . 29 Campaign – Not just a information on changes to scene in Leicester and Age UK Leicester Shire What is a shed and how Looking back over the first box in the corner . 09 Pension Credit and Nottingham will all take & Rutland’s accessible can you get involved? few months of 2019 & Why Free TV Licences for Housing Benefit rules. place this year. transport can help you a thank you to our supporters with a national name national a with charity independent local our People over 75 Matter. regain your independence. Y 4 | SPRING 2019 www.ageukleics.org.uk supporting older people for over 50 years SPring 2019 | 5 Your local independent charity with a national name Health & Wellbeing Health & Wellbeing eating guidelines apply to older people. However, The Loneliness energy requirements fall with advancing age due to a decrease in basal metabolic rate and Prescription Service often decreased levels of physical activity. Loneliness can be a cause of poor health and of age by supporting them is frequently associated with an increased to overcome social isolation • The ability to synthesise risk of stroke, cardiovascular disease, high and connecting them to local vitamin D by the skin groups, educational courses, an decreases with age. Older blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity . exercise class and lunch clubs. people are therefore The service also supports recommended to take a ge UK has been Communities Fund. The new people to make connections supplement containing at the forefront of service will expand across in their communities to form 10mcg of vitamin D daily Araising awareness Leicester city and aims to meaningful relationships as as well as regularly of the negative effects of work with GP surgeries well as a telephone befriending eating food sources of loneliness through initiatives and health professionals service that will support the vitamin (for example such as the ‘No one Should to identify people who are people who would benefit from oily fish and fortified have No one’ campaign. socially isolated or at risk of regular on-going contact. breakfast cereals). becoming socially isolated. In 2015, Age UK Leicester It is predicted that by 2030 the • Good nutrition and Shire and Rutland launched The service is supported number of older people will regular physical activity the Loneliness Prescription by a team of very loyal and have trebled and therefore it is play a protective role in Service as part of the dedicated volunteers who absolutely paramount that as a number of age-related Leicester Ageing Together work tirelessly to support providers of services and as (Source: https://www.nutrition.org.uk/ (Source: nutritionscience/life/older-adults.html) conditions including programme which mainly socially isolated people in a society we all have a moral cardiovascular disease focused on five specific the community.