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Age Cymru Advice: How can we help? Creating an age friendly Wales We are Age Cymru. Age Cymru is the leading charity for all older people in Wales. We campaign, we research and we fundraise to make sure ... tackle elder abuse in all its forms. Age Cymru Mariners House Trident Court East Moors Road Cardiff CF24 5TD www.agecymru.org.uk Age Cymru is part of the Age UK network, which also includes Age NI and Age Scotland
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DON’T MENTION THE F-WORD Advice to practitioners on communicating falls prevention messages to older people Falling in older age can lead to increased anxiety and depression, reduced activity, mobility ... higher use of medication and greater dependence on medical and social services and other forms of care. Despite the fact that there are many different interventions that can reduce the risk of falls, communicating
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arts in care homes participatory and mentoring programme It’s estimated that 80% of older care home residents are living with dementia. In 2013 the Alzheimer’s Society surveyed relatives of care home residents ... less than half felt that their family member was being offered opportunities for activities. The first phase of the project ran between 2015 and 2017, ... Age Cymru recruited professional artists in Wales
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by family member/friend o Referral by health/social care organisation o Referral by other service provider o The information provided in this form will be stored by Age Cymru on a secure system. By completing ... o – if the answer is no permission must be gained before the referral can progressHow was permission given? In person oVia the referrer if not
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Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD. ©2020 Age Cymru. Creating an age friendly Wales Picking up prescriptions • You can pick up a prescription on behalf of someone else. The prescription ... find out when the next prescription is due. If it can be ordered at least seven days beforehand this will help the pharmacist deal with urgent requests and queries. • You may need to take ID with you and
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Older people are often the target of doorstep scammers. Find out how to protect yourself against the fraudsters.
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Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road, Cardiff, CF24 5TD Tel: 029 2043 1555 Email: victoria.lloyd@agecymru.org.uk Website: www.agecymru.org.uk / www.gwanwyn.org.uk I.2) TYPE OF ORGANISATION ... Background to Age Cymru Age Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales and is the force combining Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales. The Charity works nationally and locally to
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response to the DWP consultation ‘Reforms to the Social Fund’s Funeral Expenses Payments scheme’ August 2017 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic ... research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. sally.west@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square London
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Age Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales. Formed by the merger of Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales.
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review May 2014 The effectiveness of care pathways in health and social care Background Care pathways, also known as clinical pathways, critical pathways, care paths, integrated care pathways, case management plans ... case management plans, clinical care pathways or care maps, are used to systematically plan and follow up a focused patient or client care programme.1 Care pathways are a way of setting out a process of best practice
