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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Welsh
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Phillips, Age Cymru's Volunteer Officer and find out what her roles involved and how it makes a difference to older people in Wales.
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concern for someone aged 50 or over you’re supporting you can contact Age Cymru Advice for support on 08000 223 444 If the person is aged under 50 you can call Citizen’s Advice on 03444 77 20 20 If you’re worried ... (for help and advice) • Phone: 111 (if symptoms get worse) • Phone: 999 (if someone’s life is at risk) If you’re worried about someone’s mental health, you can encourage them to get help and support from
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Advocacy is an important service to support people to have their voices heard, their wishes respected and to feel equal in relationships with others so that they can feel empowered to speak up and be involved ... people to have their rights upheld, to express their views and opinions, to make decisions about things that affect their life, and if necessary to represent people’s views at meetings. An advocate can help
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Credit age and the other is younger could receive £100 less a week under Universal Credit compared to the current system of Pension Credit if neither is in work. The older partner could be financially ... Credit older partners may have to draw more on their retirement savings to support a younger partner who is unable to work. Carers and people with limited capacity to work who have an older partner will
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Setting the mandate to NHS England for 2016 to 2017 Ref: 3515 Date: November 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or ... London WC1H 9NA. Key points and recommendations Age UK support the mandate’s aim of helping to make progress against the Five Year Forward View. There are significant funding pressures across
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Option 1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Carmarthenshire In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services ... act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA (Independent Mental Health
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------------------------------------- The purpose of qualitative research methods is to look for meaning (i.e. to understand the why and how behind things). It is therefore about developing richness in ... people or situations required for qualitative research methods is therefore small in number (relative to the sample required for quantitative research methods) but includes the widest range of people or situations
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Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales. We campaign, we research and we fundraise to make sure we build a better life for all older people. We ensure older people’s voices are heard, we ... range of national and local services and programmes directly to older people in the community and we ensure the highest standards so you can be assured of consistency and quality wherever you see the Age
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Mercer have been asked by Age UK to identify actions that can be taken by recent retirees to improve their financial resilience throughout retirement. Questions we were asked to consider are: • What is your ... optimize their income from pension pots and other savings? • How can retirement products better meet the needs of the mass market? • How can recent retirees best protect themselves throughout retirement and
