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Older women and frail older people are most susceptible to fear of crime Fear of crime is associated with reduced social networking outside the home Fear of crime is associated with depression, poor self-reported ... variations in reported fear of crime: 49% of older people in South Africa felt unsafe alone at home, compared to only 3% in China. Older women and poor older people are consistently more afraid of crime than
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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 high quality services ... 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 are pleased to respond to the Welsh
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Hybrid (Home / Cardiff) Contractual Status of Role: Full time, 35 hours per week Fixed term until March 2025 Job Title of Line Manager: Listen and Connect Service Coordinator Job Purpose: To meet the ... Provide support to volunteers through their initial induction and training and on an ongoing basis. 4. Ensure all volunteers have appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service checks prior to starting the role
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Local Government’s Role in Responding to an Ageing Population The Local Government Association Call for Evidence Ref: 2614 November 2014 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this ... establishment of the LGA Task & Finish group, and this Call for Evidence, to consider how local authorities and communities can positively adapt to meet the opportunities and challenge of our ageing population.
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Care home safeguarding training: background information The Age Cymru Basic Adult Safeguarding training is a mandatory training session delivered to all volunteers and can be delivered virtually over ... over Zoom. Safeguarding is staff and volunteers’ responsibility; it’s everyone’s duty to keep adults who need care and support safe from abuse and neglect. This two-hour interactive session ensures that all
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that 155,000 households in Wales were living in fuel poverty. This is equivalent to 12% of all households in Wales.1 To tackle fuel poverty effectively, Welsh Government must provide updated estimates ... most likely to suffer from fuel poverty, where having to spend a disproportionate amount on fuel takes money away from other essentials. A contributing factor is that older people tend to live in older
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Confederation Age opportunity A best practice guide for recruiters An ageing population, the end of forced retirement and a rising State Pension age, mean there is a growing number of over 50s in the jobs market. ... Department for Work and Pensions (2015) www.gov.uk Employing Older Workers: An employer’s guide to multi-generational workforce, Department for Work and Pensions (2013) www.gov.uk DWP Employer Toolkit:
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held across Wales in May each year celebrating creativity in older age. The aim of the festival is to: celebrate the opportunity of older age for renewal, growth and creativity, hence the connotations ... participation by older people in the arts and creative activity during the month of May promote the benefits to health and wellbeing for older people by participating in artistic and creative activity in local communities
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older people flourish. We are here to stand up for the 14 million people in the UK and 846 million people internationally who have now reached later life, but also to speak for the long-term interests of ... of every one of us, working to ensure that experiences of ageing improve from one generation to the next. We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, campaigns, products
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dementia access to services and support that they need and to have a voice in decisions that are being made. It is also to support them though situations where they may be abused and need to find safeguarding
