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resources and signposting information for volunteers as necessary. 6. To co-ordinate the attendance and contribution of volunteers at key promotional events as necessary 7. To ensure volunteers receive regular ... effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all volunteer activity in line with agreed practice as required. 9. To create, maintain and update the ‘Friend in Need’ service on the Age Cymru website
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and, along with transgender, was classified as a form of ‘mental illness’.3 None-the-less, many of the concerns of the older LGBT population are the same as for all other older people namely adequate income ... Integrated Household Survey (2014)6, overall 1.6% of adults in the UK declared their sexual identity as lesbian, gay or bisexual but this declined steadily with age from 2.6% for those aged 16-24 to 0.6%
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principles and duties of the Act Module 3 – Golden Thread Aims to promote understanding of advocacy as the Golden Thread that runs throughout the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (the Act) ... choice and representation Advocacy definitions 7 Section 181(2) of the Act defines “advocacy services” as: “services which provide assistance (by way of representation or otherwise) to persons for purposes
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increase in the level of engagement by advocacy providers over the past two years in exercises such as the Advocacy Counts survey provide a broader picture of advocacy services for adults in Wales. There ... of the issues raised. We would also like to thank everyone who assisted in preparing the survey to go live and in the production of the report. For further information, please contact: Louise Hughes Head
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important to ensure that older people can continue living independently and in their own homes for as long as possible. Basic home accessibility standards must be universal because it is often difficult ... Older people should retain the option of ‘staying put’, whenever feasible. Optional standards, as suggested by Government, are open to challenge and could end up creating more red tape rather than
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housing units 77% of which is for rent and there was generally more choice for social housing tenants as opposed to owner/occupiers, particularly for at the lower end of the housing market. Sue explained ... certainty around future housing policy. Baroness Greengross commented that many people became disabled as they got older, so suitably designed housing was extremely important. Baroness Greengross introduced
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termed as (1) Conceptual model; (2) Data preparation; (3) Modelling wellbeing; (4) Choice of domains; and (5) Calculating the WILL Index. Each of these steps methods involved research activities as well ... well as consultations with the experts (see Table below for a summary). Step Research activity Consultation 1. Conceptual model: Identifying components of wellbeing in later life Review of past studies
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termed as (1) Conceptual model; (2) Data preparation; (3) Modelling wellbeing; (4) Choice of domains; and (5) Calculating the WILL Index. Each of these steps methods involved research activities as well ... well as consultations with the experts (see Table below for a summary). Step Research activity Consultation 1. Conceptual model: Identifying components of wellbeing in later life Review of past studies
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no. 3 Advocacy Counts 5 The Golden Thread Advocacy Programme would like to wish you a Happy New Year! Page 2 Understanding co-production, and it’s role in commissioning advocacy
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hospitalised with preventable conditions because the system that should help them with basic tasks such as eating and washing, is close to breaking point. That’s according to our new report called ‘Improving ... Registration of individual workers can help to tackle the issue of standards and inappropriate behaviour, as well as helping to enhance the status of the role in the eyes of the public. 3. Training and dementia care:
