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Dementia National Assembly for Wales Cross-Party Group on Dementia April 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people ... financial pressures upon the NHS. NHS Wales should monitor the regularity of reviews of its use; the number of patients taken off the medication at three months (as recommended) and the overall level of use
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& advice and advocacy for people with care needs 15 3.4 If someone is in hospital and may need to move into a care home 16 3.5 Possible alternative options ... 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 Care homes
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Reviews of services provided 13 3.8 What if NHS care is required at some point during the social care process? 14 4 Meeting care needs – what sort of services might the ... the local authority have any duty to carry out an assessment where it is requested by another person? 16 5.3 Local authority duty to offer an assessment if you are
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Wales Photo collage This is a great activity to get people thinking about their hopes and wishes. They can think about the future or create a dream where anything is possible! • Print out photos of ... of residents’ faces • Once this is done, talk to each resident about what they’d love to do most in the world • Residents can look through old magazines or images online that you can print, and collect
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services 13 2 What can we learn from other countries? 20 Summary of key findings 20 Our international study 20 What payment methods are available? 21 Access to banking and payment systems 25 3 What older people ... people pay now? 34 Older people’s priorities 44 Attitudes to change 51 4 The role of government 56 What can we learn from other sectors? 56 5 Recommendations for further research 59 Appendix 1: Improving
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session by ensuring that participants’ contributions are respected – Ensuring that every individual is encouraged to contribute and that they are allowed the time they need to do so – Allowing time for ... session by ensuring that participants’ contributions are respected – Ensuring that every individual is encouraged to contribute and that they are allowed the time they need to do so – Allowing time for
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friends and family, the role played by government and employers in supporting longer working lives is becoming more crucial than ever. This report examines the challenges and barriers facing carers aged ... own research and focus groups, it investigates the stories of 50+ carers, looking at what works – and crucially what’s needed – to improve their employment prospects. And new analysis for this report finds
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1. Be able to describe what advocacy is and why it is important 2. Have identified the key principles of advocacy and understand why independence is important 3. Recognise what barriers there are to people ... Introduction • History of advocacy • Advocacy definition • Advocacy principles • The purpose of advocacy • What is advocacy • Types of advocacy • Independent Professional Advocacy • Advocacy, rights and barriers
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to volunteer with Age Cymru? To give something back to the community via a charitable organisation. What difference to your life has volunteering made to you? I find volunteering fulfilling both physically ... physically and mentally as a positive means of occupying spare ‘retired’ time that has become available. What do you enjoy most about your volunteering experience? Passing on skills taught via AC to reach out
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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 ... Tavistock Square London WC1H 9NA. Age Concern England (registered charity number 261794) and Help the Aged (registered charity number 272786), and their trading and other associated companies merged on 1 April
