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Through Age Cymru’s previous care home volunteering pilots we know that volunteering has a positive impact on care home resident wellbeing, as well as staff, relatives and volunteers. From July 2023 ... practitioners supported care homes with the induction of volunteers and coached them in the Tell Me More Approach. Alongside this we evaluated the impact of volunteering on the wellbeing of residents, staff and
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inquiry Senedd Health and Social Care Committee September 2022 Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be ... access to high quality services and the 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.
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YES NO NO Refer to the IPA service. NO Creating an age friendly Wales Decision making process for determining need for Independent Professional Advocacy (IPA) for adults under the Social Services and ... boards to arrange provision of IPA under the SSWb Act, but consider other forms of support and advocacy. Is the person eligible for IMCA? In partnership with the person, determine which form of advocacy
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Insights Report Age & Dementia Friendly Gymnastics Programme Evaluation Findings For more detail please see the Age & Dementia Friendly Gymnastics Programme Evaluation Report ... undation.org The British Gymnastics Foundation has developed a gymnastics chair-based exercise programme that has been piloted in two residential care homes and one day centre. The pilots began in November
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Equality and Social Justice Committee Consultation response April 2023 Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able ... services and the 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 welcome the opportunity
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This report was produced by Age Cymru in partnership with Swansea University’s Graduate Support Programme, utilising Welsh Government funding via the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales ... ................................................................................ 3 2 Older people aged 90+ (including centenarians) ................................................. 3 3 Population in local
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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 ... us below what can we do to achieve this? Age Cymru welcomes the development of a framework to support bereaved people in Wales. This important development will assist in reducing inequalities across Wales
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1 Age Cymru consultation response – Arthritis and Musculoskeletal conditions in adults 1. In light of the effect of the pandemic on service, what should musculoskeletal services consider? Statistics ... Statistics for April 2021 show that of the 223,365 waiting nine months or more, 87,918 are for trauma and orthopaedics1. There has been an increase of 712% in patients waiting more than 36 weeks to start hospital
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to ageist attitudes, stereotyping or conduct. However, negative attitudes towards older people and ageing are pervasive in our society. In common with most other forms of discrimination, ageism is based ... reflected and amplified by the media. The effect of ageism is that older people frequently experience discriminatory treatment. As a result society is failing to benefit fully from the valuable resources that
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fiddle is a programme run by Age UK and funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of the Wellbeing programme www.ageuk.org.uk www.fitasaf iddle.org.uk Age UK’s fit for the future ‘Social Prescribing’ extension ... care professionals .............................................................................. 11 The Survey Respondents ...............................................................................
