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also like to record resident’s thoughts and feelings at this time. This will go towards a Welsh Government report which may help to shape future care policy. For more info email suzy.webster@agecymru.org
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priorities for the General Election 2019 focus on non-devolved issues that are determined by UK Government. Follow us on facebook.com/agecymru twitter.com/agecymru Age Cymru is a registered charity ... Cardiff CF24 5TD. ©Age Cymru 2019 Creating an age friendly Wales Age Cymru’s vision for the next UK Government Wales has the highest proportion of older people in the UK, with 1 in 5 of the population aged
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3.5 million carers will be needed by 2037 based on current demographic projections4. The Welsh Government defines a carer as “anyone of any age, who provides unpaid care and support to a relative, friend ... Service and Demographic Change (14 March 2013): Ready for Ageing? (HL Paper 140): p82 5 Welsh Government (2013): The Carers Strategy for Wales 2013, WG 18868 6 House of Lords Select Committee, 14 March
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the consultation document, discussing relevant considerations. Key points While we welcome the Government’s efforts to make switching easier, we question the implicit idea that consumers have to switch ... calling for stronger regulation, we recognise the potential benefits of switching and call on the Government to tackle the barriers to switching among older people, including: Digital exclusion – Two thirds
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Spending Review the Government announced that it would localise support for council tax. The Welfare Reform Bill abolishes council tax and this Department for Communities and Local Government consultation paper ... not expected to be ringfenced. • Schemes will be developed within broad parameters set out by Government which include protection for pensioners. • Local authorities will need to establish schemes for
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Prices Index - CPI), average earnings, or 2.5%. The triple lock was introduced by the Coalition Government which came to power in 2010. However, the State Pension was uprated by the Retail Prices Index ... replace it with a double lock based on the higher of prices or earnings. However, as the Conservative Government does not have an overall Parliamentary majority they have made a ‘Confidence and Supply Agreement’
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qualifications, and for some people a lack of IT skills or declining self-confidence. Nor is the Government’s main employment support programme, the Work Programme, providing older jobseekers with sufficient ... meets the needs of older jobseekers. The research primarily focused on the Work Programme, the Government’s main back-to-work programme for the long-term unemployed. Chapter 2 of this report explores
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some of our concerns about the framework for care and support of older people1. In addition, the Government has committed to transferring £3.8 billion from the NHS for joint NHS and local council decisions ... receipt of this care, is declining. Without substantial growth in the overall funding envelope the Government’s aspirations to ‘transform the social care system to focus on prevention and the needs and goals
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improve the support of people who rely on social care.3 Summary of public policy proposals Welsh Government must monitor the implementation of the Information and Advice Action Plan to ensure the effective ... and delivered to a consistent standard and availability wherever it is needed in Wales. Welsh Government and local authorities must recognise that an ‘all-adult’ approach to tendering for services can
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flexibility and improve your energy levels, so that you can carry on doing the things you enjoy. Our bodies were made to move, and there’s no need to stop being active just because you get older. That said ... you are, the more likely you are to develop it • a history of osteoporosis in your family • a low body weight • heavy drinking, smoking and a lack of exercise • some medications, such as long-term steroids
