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friendly Wales Later Life Planning Service • Will Writing • Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) • Advance Decision (Living Will) Age Cymru is the national charity for older people in Wales. We campaign, we research ... discrimination wherever we find it. We provide a range of national and local services and programmes directly to older people in the community and we ensure the highest standards so you can be assured of
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Facts and figures Winter deaths 2.5 million avoidable deaths over the last 60 years Every winter in England and Wales one older person dies every seven minutes from the cold November 2015 ONS figures ... people aged 75 and over; there were an estimated 36,300 excess winter deaths in this age group in 2014/15, compared with 7,700 in people aged under 75 Among the over 65s numbers dying have more than doubled
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Living on a low income in later life Katherine Hill Liz Sutton Donald Hirsch Centre for Research in Social Policy Loughborough University October 2011 Copyright © Age UK 2011 ISBN 978-0-9568731-2-5 The ... views expressed in this report are not necessarily those of Age UK Age UK Tavis House 1–6 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9NA Registered charity number 1128267 1Living on a low income in later life Contents
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Social care is a term that covers a wide range of services that are provided in a number of different locations. The term can be used to designate any service that is designed to help people who have support ... current system of social services under pressure, even without the funding pressures which local authorities are currently confronting. Social services, as statutory services, have a degree of legal protection
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social care system in Wales 7 2.1 The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and accompanying Code of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system in Wales 7 3 Background ... eligibility for services 8 3.2 The Welsh Government’s guidance for local authorities on the financial means test 9 3.3 The capital limit 10 3.4 Local authority duties in regard to information
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Mandatory concessionary fares scheme in Wales Welsh Government January 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people ... have adequate income, 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
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going to their GP or seeking help for health concerns. Healthcare services are open and ready to help, so check in with the people in your life and make sure they get the healthcare they need. If you're ... can make it harder for people to get out and about. Calling for a chat, popping in for a cuppa or even sending a card in the post can really help let someone know you're thinking about them. Know
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delays in this area. We are very pleased to see that the plan for transforming and modernising care includes many developments that will over time help older people’s health and wellbeing improve. In our ... survey1 we saw a reduction in levels of satisfaction with health care services. Overall, 63% of people aged 50 or over had a negative experience of access to health care services. Within this, 73% had a negative
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the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape ... 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. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Finance Committee’s
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the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape ... 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. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Finance Committee’s
