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inquiry Senedd Health and Social Care Committee September 2022 Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able ... 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.
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improve the health and wellbeing of Wales. 75,000 older people in Wales have reported ‘always or often’ feeling lonely – it’s a daily reality for many older people. Feeling lonely is detrimental to the wellbeing ... wellbeing of older people and there is increasing evidence of the negative impacts on physical and mental health. These negative impacts can lead to increased pressure on a wide range of local authority and
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AgeUKIG32 Coping with the death of a loved one Bereavement 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining our Readers’ Panel. ... at all. Join our Readers’ Panel at www.ageuk.org.uk/readers-panel. 2) Tell us your story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d
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AgeUKIG13 Practical and emotional help when you’re looking after someone Advice for carers 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides ... at all. Join our Readers’ Panel at www.ageuk.org.uk/readers-panel. 2) Tell us your story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d
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options when deciding what type of funeral you want, ways to pay for a funeral, and information about organ donation. It may be helpful for people arranging a funeral. There is a form at the back of the ... the factsheet to record your funeral arrangement preferences and other helpful information for family or friends. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period February 2024 to January 2025
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Acknowledgements The author of this report would like to thank the representatives of local Age UK Brand Partners (Camden, Derby & Derbyshire, Exeter, Gloucestershire, South Tyneside and Sunderland), the Down Memory ... participating in the project who shared information for this evaluation. The author would like to give a special mention to Titilope Adekunle (Research Assistant at Age UK) for supporting the author in carrying
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Age Cymru Advice 0300 303 44 98 www.agecymru.org.uk Factsheet 60w July 2024 Choice of care home if the local authority is contributing towards your care fees Factsheet 60w July 2024 ... Legislation covering the social care system in Wales 7 2.1 The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and accompanying Code of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system
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Creating an age friendly Wales 183 volunteers active over the year 504 enquiries this year 2,867 volunteer hours 100% felt they received excellent or good support Volunteers Investing in Volunteers (Iiv) ... 83% of people said they had their issue(s) resolved positively 11% were unsure Training 99% rated the training as good or excellent 1,018 people attended our development / training events and webinars
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Definitions and terminology 6 1.2 Who can use the local authority social services complaints procedure? 7 2 Background – care needs assessments by the local authority social services department ... provision 8 3 What can you complain about? 9 3.1 Using your assessment information from the local authority to help formulate your complaint 11 4 Welsh Government guidance on the complaints
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