Age Scotland
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age. Scotland is the national charity for older people, supporting, inspiring and empowering people over the age of 50. We help old people be as well as they can be. Growing older can bring new challenges and opportunities and when help is needed, age Scotland is there are a free helpline provides information and advice to older people, their families and carers, ensuring they know about their rights and can access support are a wide range of free information. Guides are available in paper form and online. We work to ensure older people in Scotland receive all the support they are entitled to by offering a free benefits check. Our health and wellbeing programmes support older people to look after their body and mind. We promote positive views of ageing and later life. Ageing is something to be celebrated and we tackle ageism. Where we find it. We deliver training workshops which promote age friendly workplaces and communities. Older people should influence and affect change, so we work to ensure decision makers take their views and experiences into account. We campaign on issues to make the lives of older people, including those living with dementia. Better we tackle loneliness and isolation. There are times when older people just need someone to talk to. More than 200,000 say that they feel lonely All or most of the time. We're here to listen, offer support and have a friendly chat through our friendship line. We also help older people to reconnect with activities or volunteering through our community connecting service. Our community development team support and enable older peoples' groups across Scotland, helping them to thrive so that members have the opportunity to socialise, build new skills and feel part of their community. Our vital work across Scotland contributes to older people having a more effective voice, improved health and well being and feeling more independent, secure, connected and included. With your support, we can make Scotland the best place in the world to grow older. We are age Scotland, the national charity for older people