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Dementia Advocate to: • Understand your accommodation options? • Understand the choices you can make? • Access the services you need? • Stay connected to the things that matter to you? • Know your ... voice heard in all aspects of your life? • Have a voice in meetings? Dementia Advocacy: supporting you to be heard and at the centre of decisions Are you, or someone you know, aged 18+ and living in Wales
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referrer if not a self referraloVerbally oIn writing oWhat date was permission given? Any other ... consent to Age Cymru collecting and storing your personal information Yes NoYour details will be held on a secure database and will not be passed onto any third parties unless required to by law.
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Inequality The Budget did little to help to close the gap between the richest and the poorest pensioners The Budget allows more affluent older people to be able to leave more of their estate free of ... missing out of £3.7 billion of means-tested benefits to which they are entitled Material deprivation Over a million pensioners in this country cannot afford to replace a cooker if it breaks down Over four
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Issue 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 ... Providers and a Flourishing Social Value Sector develop a shared understanding of the common agenda, and to share and develop good practice. Page 7 Page 8 Recording Measurement of Personal Outcomes
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Changes to work and income around state pension age Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Authors: Jenny Chanfreau, Matt Barnes and Carl Cullinane Date: December 2013 Prepared for: ... for: Age UK NatCen Social Research | Changes to work and income around state pension age 1 Many people retire from paid work as they approach or reach state pension age. This pivotal event can have a
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During the pandemic, care home residents were among those most acutely impacted by daily restrictions to their lives. Projects such as Age Cymru’s Tell Me More revealed how much these restrictions had ... disorders. Moving to live in a care home is a significant event in any person’s life, bringing them into a new environment with new people, routines and activities. It’s often linked to bereavement
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Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) is a loan that helps to pay towards the interest on a mortgage or other eligible home improvement loans. SMI ended as a benefit from 6 April 2018 and has been ... SMI is a loan to help with the interest on your mortgage payments or other eligible home improvement loans. You'll get help paying interest on up to £200,000 of your loan or mortgage (or up to £100,000 if
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Explore beautiful coastal paths Traverse historic Offa’s Dyke trails Join in the Age Cymru Big Step To build an age friendly Wales Contents Tenby - South West Wales Around Wales Challenge2 Take a Big Step ... Wales is roughly equivalent to the distance when walking from: • Cardiff to Rome • Swansea to Oslo • Wrexham to Vienna • Newport to Monaco • Haverfordwest to Prague Our aim is to achieve a target combining
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wellbeing. Laura Tipper of Veterans NHS Wales provides an overview of the specialised priority service to improve the mental health and wellbeing of veterans. Claire Morgan and Jane Healey of Carers Wales ... carers can be negatively impacted by their caring role. The article by Sara Walters features the Roots to Recovery project delivered in partnership between Mind Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen and Pembrokeshire
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eating during the winter, while others do not eat a satisfying meal each day because they cannot afford to. In Wales, an estimated 84,000 older people live in poverty, with 50,000 of those in ‘severe’ poverty ... This means a weekly income of just £183.50 or less. This is far from the stereotype of a generation who have done well out of a growing economy and rising house prices. Unfortunately, as the examples throughout
