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Age Cymru consultation response - Bereavement Care in Wales 17th May 2021 1: Is it clear who this bereavement framework is for and why it has been developed? YES If the answer is no please tell us ... access to bereavement support and help to address the stigma of talking about dying and end of life care. Access to bereavement services is inconsistent across Wales and this position has been greatly
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1 Age Cymru consultation response -Social Care Wales Draft Equality Objectives for 2022 to 2027 13th September 2021 1. Do you agree with our approach to incorporate our anti discriminatory work in ... work within social care will need full consideration. Some survey respondents for the above report were older people working in health and social care and of these, a few held unpaid caring responsibilities
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1 Age Cymru consultation response – 6 Senedd priorities for health and social care 17th September 2021 Q1. Which of the issues listed above do you think should be a priority, and why? Each area included ... considerable resourcing and attention in order to realise the improvements needed in health and social care over the term of the 6th Senedd. However, there are some specific details within these priorities
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1 Response to the ‘Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its management on health and social care in Wales’ consultation 8th September 2022 Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve ... being assessed by social care for their needs, as well as further delays once the assessment has been completed in sourcing care packages. We are concerned that delays in getting care is having a significant
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Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community Consultation on draft NICE Guideline [GID-MANAGINGMEDICINESCOMMUNITYSOCIALCARE] Ref: 3916 Date: November 2016 All rights ... The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing a guideline around the management of medicines for adults receiving social care in the community. Older people form a
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consultation response - Rebalancing Care and Support 1. Do you agree that complexity in the social care sector inhibits service improvement? We agree that complexity in the social care sector inhibits service improvement; ... the needs of those that need services. Despite the will of staff and leaders to provide good quality care and support as envisaged through the Social Services and Well-being Act, changes to date appear to
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Consultation response Plan for transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists For the Senedd’s Health and social Care Committee June 2022 Introduction Age Cymru welcomes the opportunity ... opportunity to provide further information on modernising planned care and reducing waiting times. As we have previously advised on these issues, older people are predominantly those most affected by delays in
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Why are we still waiting? Delays in social care in Wales July 2023 Contents Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 5 2. Purpose of the research 8 3. Method 10 4. Findings 12 Issues continue with data collection ... into a care plan 18 Waits for care to be in place 19 Communications 21 5. Addressing the issues 22 How local authorities are reducing waiting lists 22 Support for unpaid carers 23 Domiciliary care 25 Day
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summary About the research This is Age Cymru’s second annual report on delays in access to social care in Wales for people aged 55 and over. Last year our dementia advocacy project, HOPE (Helping others ... were all reporting worrying delays in older people being assessed by social care for their needs, as well as delays in sourcing care packages once an assessment had been completed. A year on we wanted to know
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in care assessments in Wales August 2022 Contents Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 5 2. Purpose of the research 6 3. Method 9 4. Findings 10 • Issues with data collection 10 • Waiting for care 11 ... 14 • Support whilst waiting for care 18 • Support from the third sector 20 Conclusions 22 Recommendations 24 References 27 Tables Table 1 Time from a request for a care assessment and the assessment
