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  1. Carers

    older carers and carers of people living with dementia, funded by the Welsh Government Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant. The project will support the early identification of older carers to

  2. About our Golden Thread Advocacy Programme

    Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 came into force on the 6 April 2016 and it will have a ... years (2016 to 2020) to run alongside and support the implementation of Part 10 (Advocacy) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. The programme's key aims were To support the commissioning

  3. RB_March13_Age_Friendly_Neighbourhoods.pdf

    immediate environment sets the tone for our daily life and while many older people continue to play an active part in their community, problems with mobility, vision and memory can make neighbourhoods difficult ... to involve older people throughout. They should support older people, particularly those that are socially excluded, with funding and advice to design and lead projects to improve their neighbourhoods.

  4. Survey v5.docx

    may be provided by different organisations, such as a voluntary organisation, a private agency or social services.  Yes  No  Don’t Know Carer support groups  Yes  No  Don’t Know Carers centre  Yes ... (also known as a ‘What Matters’ conversation)  Yes  No  Don’t Know Respite break for you (via social services) If you answered No or Don’t Know to the questions above, we’d appreciate it if you could

  5. Commissioning IPA Framework English Oct 19.pdf

    Creating an age friendly Wales Commissioning Independent Professional Advocacy for Adults under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 A Framework and Toolkit Ministerial Foreword I am pleased ... awarded funding from the Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant to deliver the Golden Thread Advocacy Programme to support the implementation of Part 10 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales)

  6. RB_Dec16_No_one_Should_Have_No_one.pdf

    services for many years that support older people and their families and carers. These include social activities that bring people together such as coffee mornings, lunch clubs, cookery classes, ‘Men in Sheds’6 ... who carry out home visits; GPs and practice nurses; district nurses and occupational therapists; social workers and home from hospital services. Where one of these professionals felt an older person might

  7. Survey.pdf

    may be provided by different organisations, such as a voluntary organisation, a private agency or social services.  Yes  No  Don’t Know Carer support groups  Yes ... ‘What Matters’ conversation)  Yes  No  Don’t Know Respite break for you (via social services) If you answered No or Don’t Know to the questions above, we’d appreciate it if

  8. RB_2013_Falls_Prevention_Guide.pdf

    secondary prevention, and can significantly contribute to reducing the financial burden on the NHS and social care by preventing fractures and avoidable hospital admissions. Audits of falls and bone health services ... people 11 Department of Health, 2009. Falls and fractures: effective interventions in health and social care. 12 Cochrane Review, 2012. Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the

  9. RB_Jan16_Predicting_the_prevalence_of_loneliness_at_older_ages.pdf

    subjective experience, a feeling of a gap between desired and actual relationships, a perceived deficit in social relationships (Weiss, 1973; Perlman et al, 1998). Loneliness is a prevalent phenomenon in later life ... low self-esteem, contacts with friends or family, social activity, well-being, and income comfort; and having unmet social care needs. (Regarding social engagement, other evidence suggests particularly

  10. Human Rights Toolkits V8.pdf

    wales/yourrights-care-and-support-older-person booklets produced by Social Care Wales in partnership with the Welsh Government, and the Social Care Wales Hub learning resources https:// socialcare.wales/hu ... Making Rights Work For Older People. The first is designed to help public bodies comply with the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and the Human Rights Act 1988, as well as the UN Principles

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