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services or the many voluntary sector services in their area. Our model also promotes a new way of working, shifting away from siloed medical interventions towards a model featuring non-medical support delivered ... prevalent in people over 85 and the total numbers are likely to grow substantially in the coming years. Work carried out by Age UK has identified frailty as an important risk factor for low mood and depression
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the NHS as a whole, not just those responsible for specialist palliative care. All professionals working in the NHS will care for people who are dying, yet training in end of life care remains poor. Geriatricians ... the use of the word “frailty”, a word increasingly used in government and wider health policy. In work we have recently completed on health professional perceptions of frailty (not yet published) there
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Population Finance Committee January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to ... contribution these essential workers make in providing care for the vulnerable. 16. Conducting difficult work for low pay creates problems in recruitment and retention. Indeed, it is a testament to the dedication
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Population Finance Committee January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to ... contribution these essential workers make in providing care for the vulnerable. 16. Conducting difficult work for low pay creates problems in recruitment and retention. Indeed, it is a testament to the dedication
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million people in 2015–16, and our Advice Service team dealt with around 260,000 enquiries. Years of working with and listening to older people in different circumstances has given us a wealth of knowledge ... Cognitive skills – ageing often affects a range of cognitive skills, including processing speed, working memory and long-term memory,9 as well as people’s ability to recall the right words in conversation
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We appreciate the efforts that have been put into developing timelines within the plan, but further work is needed. We have some concerns that the target times for reducing waiting times simply refer to ... issues and reduce the need for high level interventions from health and social care. For such campaign work it will be important to consider how information will be cascaded to be of greatest effect, and how
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that a consumer has not understood, mention of medication. The financial services sector is also working on similar issues and the Financial Conduct Authority’s Occasional Paper on Consumer Vulnerability7 ... support for the principle of sharing vulnerability data across multiple utilities and, indeed, current work on this by Citizens Advice and the UK Regulators Network. Given low consumer awareness of PSRs and
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that enabling and empowering NHS staff to speak up about concerns around safety and care practices at work is a key element of securing patient safety. We welcome the ambition in the Review to foster a culture ... culture of openness and commitment to safety and improvement, which is a central part of the work that we have undertaken through the Dignity Commission, jointly with the NHS Confederation and the Local
