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many personal benefits to yourself as well as to residents and the care home staff. “It was a good feeling to be able to assist the Home in this important activity - important for residents and visitors ... practitioner and care home Activity Coordinator to create a themed project • Help conversation come to life using the Age Cymru using the ‘Tell Me More’ cards • Help to lead a group activity What is not required:
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believes that being able to get out and about, whether by public transport or driving, is a vital way for older people to continue to be connected, to work, to access local services and to participate fully in ... Responsibility for transport crosses national and local government, the private and the community sector, which means that it can be difficult to implement improvements. Yet, access to transport, or the
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ageing and Older People Ageing in rural areas Monday 30 January Chair Baroness Jolly Speakers David Emerson, chair, ACRE Susan Oliver, CEO at Humber and Wolds Rural Community ... Community Council Mervyn Kohler, Age UK Dr Kellie Payne, Learning and Research Manager, Campaign to End Loneliness Philip Talbot, Chief Executive, Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire Dr John Miles
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appropriate or inappropriate to act as an advocate?” This resource reviews what the Code says about the role of the appropriate individual2 and highlights some points which might be helpful for social care and health ... carers and citizens to consider. Assessing need for independent professional advocacy Chapter 8 of the Code states that independent professional advocacy under the Act “is specific to supporting an individual
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across Wales to support the commissioning of independent professional advocacy under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, to build the capacity of the advocacy sector and to raise awareness ... now come to the end of the funding for the programme and we will officially be closing GTAP, as it has affectionately become known, on the 31st March 2020. We want to take this opportunity to thank
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some bobbles You’ll need this stuff: Easy peasy (well, it is if you take a look at the champion ‘how to knit’ guide at www.learn2knit.co.uk which will give you everything you need.) But if you’ve done a ... stitch. 1. Insert the tip of the right needle through the first loop on the left needle, from front to back. Then wrap the working yarn around the tip of the right needle. 2. Pull the tip of the right
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Centre for Policy on Ageing – Rapid review 2016 1 Diversity in older age – Older Offenders Demographic overview In June 2016 there were 12,700 older people (aged 50 and over) in prison in England and ... having seen a 10% rise in the year to March 2016. The 50-59 age group is the second fastest growing group, with the numbers rising by 6% over the same period.1 From 2002 to 2016 the number of older prisoners
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some bobbles You’ll need this stuff: Easy peasy (well, it is if you take a look at the champion ‘how to knit’ guide at www.learn2knit.co.uk which will give you everything you need.) But if you’ve done a ... stitch. 1. Insert the tip of the right needle through the first loop on the left needle, from front to back. Then wrap the working yarn around the tip of the right needle. 2. Pull the tip of the right
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people in recent months. We took the questions to BT and attached their responses underneath each question. Will call blockers, used to prevent scammers from contacting older people, still ... Some people reported being switched to the digital system without prior notice. BT uses an automated system that requires their customers to provide permission before they are switched.
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parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. ... gaining access to specialist palliative care are in this age group3. 1.2. This last fact should be central to consideration of this inquiry. Despite these numbers, the NHS continues to struggle to properly
