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Consultation response Count me In Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee National Assembly for Wales December 2018 Introduction 1. Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives ... 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 and the opportunity to shape their own future
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Option 1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Blaenau Gwent 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 ... sectioned under the mental health 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
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Option 1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Neath Port Talbot 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 ... sectioned under the mental health 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
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Care in Crisis 2014 Summary This is the third edition of our ‘Care in Crisis’ technical briefing, which aims to set out the key figures on funding for social care. Since our last edition in 2012, ... Bill has addressed some of our concerns about the framework for care and support of older people1. In addition, the Government has committed to transferring £3.8 billion from the NHS for joint NHS and
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1 A blueprint for older people in Wales 2024 2 Introduction This General Election matters for older people. Worn down by the pandemic and cost of living crisis, many are yearning for a more positive future ... to help bring it about. According to the 2021 Census Data, approximately 1,300,100 people who live in Wales are aged 50 or over with the overall population estimated to be around 3 million.1 This equates
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Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered in Wales and England 6837284. Registered office address Ground Floor, Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road ... Wales ‘Friends’ support guide This information guide is to help ‘Friends’ supporting people they know in their local community - who may be self-isolating, social distancing or shielding. Further support
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Older people are experiencing delay in social care assessments and implementation in care packages. Read our report and recommendations.
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of social connectedness. 48.7% of older people experienced increase in mental wellbeing. 38.4% older people experienced increase in life satisfaction. 70% of volunteers gained a new skill and increased confidence ... excellent.’ ‘I’m a big fan of working together. I saw the opportunity to benefit the patients and to work more closely with other voluntary sector services. All ages should link in this collaborative way.’
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are measures of social isolation, no matter what they claim to be. Superimposing factors identified in the literature as being associated with loneliness without knowing their weightings (see below) is ... measure of loneliness risk at any level, as simply adding the factors together and not weighting them in fact means that they are all weighted equally, which our research shows is far from accurate. This
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policy@ageuk.org.uk www.ageuk.org.uk Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address ... change legislation to allow cheques to be processed differently. The changes will require investment in systems which should allow cheques to be processed more quickly, facilitate innovation such as using
