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campaigning ...................................................................................... 2 What you can do to help .................................................................................. ... said more will be done to encourage those entitled to Pension Credit to claim it but this will take time and won’t stop many missing out this year. To make matters worse, this isn’t the only support with
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likely to fall again, with an escalating risk of injury. • • A ‘long lie’ of 12 hours or more can seriously affect a person’s recovery from a fall. Public Health Wales indicate that, annually up ... but there are many things you can do yourself to reduce a risk of falling. Falls are not the inevitable consequence of growing older. Address the key risks and you can avoid falling and enjoy life.
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Combatting loneliness one conversation at a time A call to action Over the past year we have been proud to chair the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, which Jo set up before her death in summer 2016, to ... who are lonely in their lives and what they could do to help them. And we have stimulated new debate about the role that government, business and community groups can play. Jo said that she wanted to “turbo-charge”
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International Observatory on End of Life Care Faculty of Health and Medicine Lancaster University i Executive Summary: This report presents findings from an independent evaluation commissioned by National ... within same household caring relationships • Multiple caregiving roles exist whereby older carers can be supporting spouses, siblings, their children or their sibling’s children, within their own households
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By becoming a corporate partner of Age Cymru, together we can change older people's lives and bring lasting benefits to your company too. Why partner with us? Thousands of older people across Wales are ... partnership, we can make a difference. Ways we can work together As a corporate partner, there are many ways we can work collaboratively to help you achieve your objectives whilst, at the same time, helping Age
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Age Cymru Advice Statement of Service What we do .Age Cymru Advice provides an information and advice service to older people, their carers and families in Wales on a range of issues including: W elfare ... 4pm. Call us on:0300 303 4498(charged at a local rate). We can call you back if you’re concerned about your phone bill.Email advice: You can email us directly at:advice@agecymru.org.ukWebsite: There’s
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care home – are there other ways in which care needs can be met? 17 3.6 What happens if you do not wish to move into a care home? 18 3.7 ... home charging means test 33 6.3 If you will be paying for your care yourself (i.e. fully self funding as assets above the capital limit) 34 6.4 Moving from
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There are nearly 170 local Age UK organisations in England and their information and advice services can also provide direct face to face information and support including help with benefit claims. Although ... relatively straightforward and some felt it was an improvement over DLA forms. On the other hand it can be very challenging for many disabled people to make a claim if they attempt to do this alone. One
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experience and can leave people feeling completely hopeless. For many people this feeling is short lived as life moves on, but for some loneliness can become chronic. The feeling of chronic loneliness can make people ... self-confidence, which itself can make it increasingly difficult to build meaningful relationships that could restore a person’s self and self-worth. Loneliness also carries a stigma that can make it hard to admit
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from the day when the first person in your house became ill. If not possible, then you should do what you can to limit your social contact when you leave the house to get supplies. Staying at home for 14 ... walking a dog, you will need to ask friends or relatives. Alternatively, you can order medication by phone or online. You can also order your shopping online. Make sure you tell delivery drivers to leave
