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Extending coverage alone will not ensure adequate pensions in retirement – and we do our future pensioners a grave disservice if we do not acknowledge this. Contributions will need to rise from 8 per cent ... system should, over time, ensure that more carers retire on a full state pension, their incomes overall will remain lower. Age UK would like to see carers who are eligible for Carer’s Allowance also being paid
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gaps in services we need to hear about them. We also need to understand what support older people will need to re-engage with their community. You can complete our survey online: www.agecymru.org.uk/covid19survey ... key areas will both promote and protect the rights of older people in Wales. “The pandemic has compounded the challenges faced by older people significantly and it’s vital that older people form an integral
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cARTrefu Phase 3, Age Cymru’s arts in care homes project, will continue until August 2021. Phase 3 is focusing on empowering care home staff to improve the range and quality of creative provision ... sustainability. Thanks to the further funding from the Baring Foundation and Arts Council Wales, cARTrefu will be delivering care home workshops, activity plans, and artist workshops free of charge throughout
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landlords’ (private registered providers of social housing will also be classed as a community landlord). Private rented sector landlords will continue to be referred to as ‘private landlords’, so there ... sector. Secure contract – generally for use in the community landlord rented sector. Note: There will, however, also be ‘converted’ versions of the contracts above (in cases where people already had a
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the most excluded older people in central and south Manchester. Moreover, the findings of this work will play a direct role in the development of the city’s plans for the neighbourhoods in which the research ... research process itself is therefore the focus, rather than the research findings and outcomes, which will be reported elsewhere. It is an account of learning by doing (Clough et al., 2006): of discovering
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help you live as well as possible with dementia, and ways you can plan for the future. This guide will also be helpful for the friends and family of someone with a dementia diagnosis. This symbol indicates ... always best to talk to your doctor and share specific examples of symptoms you’ve experienced. This will either set your mind at ease or, if you do have dementia, get you the help and support you need. Getting
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pandemic. The report -“Valuing Voices in Wales: Protecting Rights Through the Pandemic and beyond”formed the basis of The Big Eventswhich were a virtual series of five webinars arranged and organised by ... services with NDTi. The document had been provided to delegates when signing up to the webinar and formed the basis of discussions around its key five principals: https://qualityadvocacy.org.uk/wp-cont
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choose to work on something that you love and make a commitment you can easily manage and then you will love it- it gets addictive!
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becoming involved with volunteering? If you have time and are happy to give something of yourself you will be rewarded tenfold.
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to someone who is thinking of becoming involved with volunteering? If you have any spare time and willing to commit on a regular basis then do it. It makes you feel good but the difference it makes to the
