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assessment 10 3.3 The provision of equipment and/or an adaptation if you are found to have eligible needs 10 4 Disability equipment provided by local authorities 11 4.1 ... technology – ‘Telecare’ 36 8.3 Telehealth 38 8.4 Environmental Control Systems 38 9 Equipment for employment 39 10 Problems and complaints regarding disability equipment or adaptations provided by the local
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authority care services have placed increasing pressure on unpaid carers. There are now over 2 million carers aged 65 and over, 37% of these carers aged 80 and over are providing 20 hours or more of care a week ... unsustainable, and the Government now agrees. It is time to ensure that meaningful action is taken. “If she didn’t have her family to help her, where would she be? She hasn’t even had a proper assessment
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polarisation of care – private formal care for those that can afford it, rising reliance on informal carers and increasing unmet needs for those that can’t. However with local government facing more real terms ... highest concentration of older people and unpaid carers will be the ones that will bring in the least amount of money from the 2% council tax precept. • Even if proposals bring £3.5bn into adult social care
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enough to provide an adequate platform for saving and to reduce means-testing. We question if this will be achieved if it is set at £144 in today’s terms – just £1.30 over the basic Pension Credit level. ... that people understand the rules and are encouraged to claim any credits due. For example while most carers receive credits automatically some need to make a claim. And some unemployed or disabled people do
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Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide relatable examples that benefit others. Email your story ... written with you in mind. This information guide has been produced with the help of older people, carers and expert peer reviewers. This guide has been kindly peer reviewed by the National LGBT Partnership
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Access to healthcare 8 3. Access to social care 15 4. Current challenges 17 5. Unpaid carers 24 6. Veterans 26 7. Employment 27 8. Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic 29 9. Communication 31 The year ahead 1. Looking ... in terms of not having to socialise. Others, however, haven’t experienced less pressure due to employment issues, or not feeling confident to go out to socialise again or visit family. ‘Pressure to get
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Access to healthcare 8 3. Access to social care 15 4. Current challenges 17 5. Unpaid carers 24 6. Veterans 26 7. Employment 27 8. Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic 29 9. Communication 31 The year ahead 1. Looking ... in terms of not having to socialise. Others, however, haven’t experienced less pressure due to employment issues, or not feeling confident to go out to socialise again or visit family. ‘Pressure to get
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occupation contracts in the private rented sector 8 3.1 Background – occupation contracts in the private rented sector 8 3.2 Rights regarding rent if you have ... standard contract 9 3.3 Rights regarding rent if you have a periodic standard contract 10 3.4 Rights regarding rent if you have a converted fixed
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completed. These delays have a significant detrimental impact on those individuals waiting, their carers, family and their wider support network. Through our research we wanted to understand: • The scale ... made across Wales to recover from the pandemic and improve social care for older people, and support carers. 2) Communication with older people waiting needs improvement. 3) Data collection across many local
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legislationprovided a statutory duty to offer support, it had only partly mitigated the right to advocacy if professionals were not enabling this to happen. Advocacy was agreed to be an important `hard wonright` ... being overruled through the application of blanket decision-making policies under the current pandemic. If people were made aware of advocacy, the methods for communication were not always appropriate to the
