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all deserve the right to have a voice in our lives. People living with dementia in Wales can face an unique set of challenges in almost all areas of their lives. Age Cymru’s independent dementia advocacy ... committed to championing the voices of people living with dementia through these challenges. Our dementia advocacy project supports anyone 18+ living in Wales with a diagnosis of dementia. This service is a responsive
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2 of 67 Contents 1 Information about this factsheet 4 2 Welsh Government legislation which governs homelessness assistance from local authorities 4 2.1 Part 2 (Homelessness) of the Housing ... supplementary guidance to Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act – Code of Guidance for Local Authorities on the Allocation of Accommodation and Homelessness
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older Contents Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support ... stand up and speak for all those who have reached later life, and also protect the long-term interests of future generations. About Age UK Foreword 05 1 A great place to grow older 06 2 The global context
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driven by the natural lifecycle of wealth accumulation and decumulation and the huge rise in house prices • Wealth inequality is much greater than income inequality so the holding of housing wealth in older ... only used as a source of income as a last resort for emergency support later in life. • The Care Act 2014 will provide, for the first time a degree of certainty in the cost of residential care in older age including
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What matters to you? Current experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales August 2024 Contents About this research 3 Current experiences of people aged 50 or over 4 Access to healthcare 4 • Getting ... Bereavement and grief 33 • Scams 35 Unpaid carers 37 • Unpaid carers accessing health and social care 38 Living with disabilities 39 Armed Forces Veterans 41 Employment 44 • Ageism in the workplace 47 Communication
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Age Cymru by the Bevan Foundation, draws on the views and experiences of more than 300 people aged 60 and over of the importance of bus services
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found that 41% of people over retirement age in the UK volunteer on a regular basis (this could be formally or informally).2 Similarly, Government surveys in England have found that that 39% of people aged ... aged 65-74 and 24% of those 75+ said they were involved in formal volunteering at least once per year.3 Volunteering benefits both health and quality of life. Older volunteers report that their volunteering:
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placement in Wales Factsheet 10w April 2024 (amended May 2024) 2 of 76 Contents 1 Information about this factsheet 5 1.1 Definitions and terminology 6 2 Legislation covering ... Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and accompanying Code of Practice guidance 10 3 Provision of information & advice and advocacy by local authorities
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1 Safe to be me Meeting the needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people using health and social care services A resource pack for professionals 2 Foreword ‘The staff in the home very rarely ... after so many years of hiding. She didn’t push but she gave plenty of positive messages that she didn’t have a problem. At 78 I finally feel I’m safe to be me.’ Julie The contrast of these two experiences
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interests of every one of us, so that experiences of ageing grow better for each passing generation. We are Age UK Acknowledgements: We wish to thank Professor Martin Knapp from the National Institute of Health ... the New Dynamics of Ageing, for help identifying authors and research for this book. We also thank Age UK’s Research Department for assistance with editing. And not least we thank all of the authors in this
