as well as delays in sourcing care packages once an assessment had been completed. These delays have a significant detrimental impact on those individuals waiting, their carers, family and their wider support ... for care service recovery • The help available for older people who are currently waiting for care • What Age Cymru and the third sector could do to support local authorities in recovery. To gather the necessary
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those involved. Your care home will have their own relevant risk assessment policy and documents. This is a suggested template only. Care home name Description of role assessed Care home volunteer supporting ... of Risk Assessment Review date What is the hazard Who may be harmed and why What action you’re taking to control risk Action carried out by When the action is carried out Signed off by Example:
Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to ... to high quality services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We welcome
support, companionship and advice for older people who need it most. We are local We work as part of a network of independent charities which includes Age UK; our national partners Age Cymru, Age NI and ... charity, Age International, to fund programmes in over 30 developing countries. Age International is a member of the HelpAge global network and the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). The Age UK Annual
that more than 21 per cent of older people over 55 have no housing wealth at all2. This percentage is likely to grow as increasing numbers of older people find themselves living in rented property. Around ... 32% in 2014 to 35% by 20254 according to projections. Despite this, in the longer term, homeownership is likely to decline for future generations as the private rented sector continues to expand. 1.1. Trends
Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access ... access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We
isolation are a daily reality for many older people; 75,000 older people in Wales have reported ‘always or often’ feeling lonely. Feeling lonely has many detrimental effects on older people, and there is increasing ... evidence of the negative impacts on physical and mental health. There is strong evidence that loneliness can increase the pressure on a wide range of local authority and health services. Equally, there are
around one in three over-65s living in the community and one in two people aged over 85 will have a fall.
services 13 2 What can we learn from other countries? 20 Summary of key findings 20 Our international study 20 What payment methods are available? 21 Access to banking and payment systems 25 3 What older people ... people pay now? 34 Older people’s priorities 44 Attitudes to change 51 4 The role of government 56 What can we learn from other sectors? 56 5 Recommendations for further research 59 Appendix 1: Improving