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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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The HOPE Project (Helping Others Participate and Engage) is a partnership project between;
Age Cymru, Age Cymru local partners and Age Connects Wales partners across the whole of
Wales.
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If you want to live independently but in a smaller, easier-to-manage home, with support, then sheltered housing (also called retirement housing) might appeal to you.
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the right care home for you or your loved one can be a tricky issue. We take you through the steps, and share our care home checklist.
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Older People in Wales: facts and statistics
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between 1 April and 30 June 2024. The following people will be eligible to receive it: residents in a care home for older adults; all adults aged 75 years and over; people aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed ... invited for their vaccination by their Local Health Board (LHB). If you feel that you should be eligible and you don’t receive an invite, contact your LHB to query this – see the link below. If you
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Find out more about the ways your company and Age Cymru can work together
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home, but the technology that powers it will be a bit different and you may need to upgrade some of your equipment. What’s changing and when? The technology we currently use to make calls on landlines ... replaced with an internet-based version, called an ‘IP network’. Landlines will still exist, and you can still have a phone line in your home - but the system that underpins it will be different.
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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 work after ... digital switchover. There will be a new in-built service called Hiya that will automatically block scam calls. (See attached). Some people reported being switched to the digital system without
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really make a difference Of all UK nations, Wales has the largest proportion of older people aged 65 and over - 668,950 (21% of the population). Wales also has the fastest ageing population – projections ... prices, and the cost-of-living crisis, many older people are facing some of the hardest challenges imaginable – economic poverty; fuel poverty; food poverty; health and wellbeing issues; and frauds
