focus and possible recommendations. Separately they have also initiated a consumer protection case. Key points and recommendations Although much can be done to improve the care home market by ensuring
supported by health and social care services to communicate in Welsh. Communication is absolutely key to ensuring that service provision is effective, appropriate and, crucially, person-centred. Health
to provide independent advocacy support to local older people and carers so they can help shape the key decisions affecting their lives and avoid getting into a crisis situation. For more information on
says: ‘ ...Safeguarding Adults (DH, 2008) highlighted a number of changes in perceptions of abuse and key points of concern surrounding how consistent the response by social services is to cases of abuse, ... Evidence Review, November 2015 7 3 Who is at most risk of financial abuse? There is a range of key risk factors that indicate those who are most likely to be victims of financial abuse. Evidence shows
and Pensions Fuller Working Lives strategy, and the role of employers in supporting this agenda. Key points and recommendations With State Pension age rising, ensuring enough support for people to ... where the individual has a health condition, a caring responsibility or is long-term unemployed. A key part of any reforms to the SPA must be to extend financial support for those people, so for example
9 Fitzpatrick S, Johnsen S and White M (October 2011) Multiple exclusion homelessness in the UK: key patterns and intersections Social Policy & Society, vol 10, Pt 4: pp 501-512 Centre for Policy on ... the UK: An Overview of Key Findings, Briefing Paper No. 1, Heriot Watt University; ESRC Fitzpatrick S, Johnsen S and White M ( 2011) Multiple exclusion homelessness in the UK: key patterns and intersections
to gather key documents in a safe place and tell someone you trust, such as a family member or the executor of your will, where they are. This can make things simpler for them later on. Key documents include ... preferences, and review it as necessary. In some parts of England, there are local registers that hold key information about the preferences of people nearing the end of life. Your GP or medical team should
Age UK continues to work on this issue and develop policy recommendations. This review highlights key gaps in current information and research. The most striking gap that has emerged relates to the absence ... Victims’ response to highvalue incentives, reliance on signs of authority and their self-confidence were key The principal differences that emerged between respondents who did and did not report past compliance
to coincide with the expected number of healthy life years.12 An American study found that the key demographic characteristics which seem to differentiate those older people who have greater access to the family ... tion. The authors put forward proposals that will reform the current social care system in three key ways: • establishing a different starting point for social care services by asking: ‘what do people need to live a
and younger workers, and the truth is that, regardless of the type of work, a strong economy is the key ingredient for anyone to be in employment. In reality older and younger jobseekers are unlikely to ... before retirement, while more than two-fifths do not think they will ever make up this shortfall.21 A key contributor to this lack of readiness is inadequate pension provision, often dating back to earlier