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1 Creating an age friendly Wales The Role of an Appropriate Individual Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) March 2020 2 3 Introduction The importance of the role of the appropriate individual is established ... with assistance from an appropriate individual, but there is no appropriate individual available. Age Cymru’s Golden Thread Advocacy Programme (GTAP)4 produced a flow chart5 which sets out a decision making
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1 Transport infrastructure September 2016 Age UK believes that being able to get out and about, whether by public transport or driving, is a vital way for older people to continue to be connected ... the quality of life, health and wellbeing of those in later life – for example, 1.45 million people aged 65+ in England find it difficult to travel to hospital and 630,000 find it difficult or very difficult
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1 Manifesto 2021 Age Cymru’s vision for the 2021 Senedd elections – a better later life for all older people Age Cymru’s vision is a Wales where everyone enjoys good health, lives safely, is free from ... ongoing inequality of access to advocacy for all older people in Wales (iii) • Only 49% of people aged 75 or over use the internet (iv) 2 Everyone should live with dignity and respect. Older people are
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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 ... 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. There
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partners are; Age Cymru, Age Cymru local partners and Age Connects Wales partners and they make up the project board which oversees the strategic direction and implementation of the work. Age Cymru is the ... advocacy sector in Wales. The Hope team also continue to offer some of the support provided previously by Age Cymru including; supporting networks and advisory groups; undertaking assessments; mapping services
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1 Age Cymru Advice Statement of Service What we do. Age Cymru Advice provides an information and advice service to older people, their carers and families ... our national and local partner services in your area The service is free, independent and confidential and we won’t pass your details to anyone else without your permission. How we provide support. Ø
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1 Age Cymru Advice Statement of Service What we do. Age Cymru Advice provides an information and advice service to older people, their carers and families ... national and local partner services in your area The service is free, independent and confidential and we will not pass your details to anyone else without your permission. How we provide support.
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Advocacy during Coronavirus survey 2021 Creating an age friendly Wales Creu Cymru oed gyfeillgar Advocacy during Coronavirus survey 2021 2 In June 2020, a survey was carried out of advocates to gather ... Advocacy during Coronavirus survey 2021 6 The table below show the responses to the question “What are your current concerns for the people you support and represent”? Decrease in economic wellbeing Increased
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Age UK briefing for MPs – Excess Winter Deaths June 2016 Over the last ten years a shocking quarter of a million older people have died from the cold –1 older person every 7 minutes and at the root of ... majority of deaths occurred among people aged 75 and over; there were an estimated 36,300 excess winter deaths in this age group in 2014/15, compared with 7,700 in people aged under 75 Among the over 65s numbers
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loneliness is also defined by an individual’s subjective emotional state. How can it be measured? Age UK’s research is the first and, so far, only evidence linking loneliness with local risk. All other ... statistical data – is totally wrong. For this work, we are looking for risk of being lonely in later life (aged 65 or over), both for the individual and between areas in order to identify what the main risk factors
