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groups and from LGBTQ+ communities. The Covid pandemic presented many challenges for older people. We needed to adapt how we delivered our services to address the loneliness and isolation experienced ... lockdown. As we come out of the crisis, we see the hidden cost of Covid, such as delays in accessing social and health care, the need to rebuild confidence, and the effect it had on the well-being of many older
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October 2021 Age Cymru welcomes the development of the workforce strategy for health and social care. This, along with other linked developments should help increase the number of staff recruited to work ... chosen profession in the longer term. Importance of a Real Living Wage We welcome the Welsh Government’s commitment to ensure that all care workers receive a Real Living Wage within the term of this Senedd
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Summary This is the third edition of our ‘Care in Crisis’ technical briefing, which aims to set out the key figures on funding for social care. Since our last edition in 2012, the Care Bill has addressed ... 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 about the funding
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Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered in Wales and England 6837284. Registered office address Ground Floor, Mariners House, Trident Court, East Moors Road ... Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD. ©2020 Age Cymru. Creating an age friendly Wales Advocacy Advocacy is an important service to support people to have their voices heard, their wishes respected and to feel equal
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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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working Age UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England (registered charity number 1128267 and registered company number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1–6 ... and Help the Aged (registered charity number 272786), and their trading and other associated companies merged on 1 April 2009. Together they have formed the Age UK Group, dedicated to improving the lives
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assistance from local authorities 4 2.1 Part 2 (Homelessness) of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 4 2.2 Official supplementary guidance to Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act – Code of Guidance ... Local Authorities on the Allocation of Accommodation and Homelessness 5 2.3 Part 1 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 6 2.4 The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 7 2.5 The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales)
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1 Forum Resource Manual 1 Contents Section 1 Introduction 2 Section 2 Tools of the trade 4 Before you start… anything 4 Getting started 7 Committee roles and responsibilities 12 General Data Protection ... Cymru Age Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales. More than ever before, older people are facing some of the hardest challenges imaginable. Some live in poverty or can’t get the basic care
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Issue no. 10 The Golden Thread Advocacy Programme—Two years on—Where are we now? GTAP was funded in 2016 by Welsh Government to support the implementation of the advocacy element of the Social Services ... To support and build the capacity of the advocacy sector in Wales, and 3. To raise awareness of advocacy We have now completed 2 years of this 3 year programme and the following is a summary of what we
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Cardiovascular (CV) activities are designed to work the heart and lungs harder than normal. Participants should naturally start to feel warmer and breathe faster and harder but still always be able to ... feet alternately up and down off the floor in a marching action Keep back straight throughout Try not to stamp the feet, but make sure the full foot goes back down to the floor each time HEEL DIGS AND
