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The levy was designed to improve social care, and deal with the backlog of patients waiting for treatment following the COVID-19 pandemic The new levy means any person liable to pay national insurance, including people of pension age, is required to pay a tax equal to 1.25% of the amount of individual's earnings or profits.
Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) is a dementia research charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1992 as the Alzheimer's Research Trust.. ARUK funds scientific studies to find ways to treat, cure or prevent all forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia.
An Early Day Motion was put before the UK Parliament in December 2014 with the title "John's Campaign and the right to stay with dementia patients in hospital." [ 5 ] The campaign has received coverage including the April 2015 edition of the Alzheimer's Society 's magazine Living with Dementia and BBC Radio 4's You and Yours consumer programme ...
Alzheimer's Society is a United Kingdom care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. It operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, [2] [3] while its sister charities Alzheimer Scotland [4] and Alzheimer Society of Ireland cover Scotland and the Republic of Ireland respectively.
The Young Dementia Network was established in 2016, before being absorbed into Dementia UK, following a merger with YoungDementia UK in November 2020. It is intended to provide opportunity for knowledge share, campaigning and collaboration between professionals and those affected by young onset dementia .
The strategic direction of The National Lottery Community Fund is decided by a board made up of a chair and nine members. The Fund's decision-making on grants is devolved to country committees for each of the four UK countries – England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The chairs of these country committees sit on the main board.
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Disabled Facilities Grants are paid under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 for the provision of grant aided adaptations for disabled persons' properties within the UK. From 2020/21 the budget was increased to £573 million.