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For example, it should consider issues such as employer attitudes to ageing and older workers, the social impact of working, the impact of caring responsibilities, and job quality, all of which can have ... on financial advice, but do also include information on employment and volunteering, community activities, and healthy living. i Metcalf H & Meadows
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Should older people who have accumulated assets be expected to use those assets to help pay for social and residential care in older age, if they are unfortunate enough to require it, or should welf ... 6 [Figure 9] but there are also wide variations within regions indicating other, more localised, social and economic factors at work12. In a 1980 thesis Kemeny conjectured that societies with higher
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people to get out and about, access essential services such as health care, and reduce the risk of social isolation, particularly in rural areas. It’s important that there is supporting infrastructure in ... Cymru ¦ Covid Survey (ageuk.org.uk) 3 Active travel Age Cymru supports the aims of active travel for older people, in light of the documented health and social, as well as environmental, benefits that
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differences. The DWP dismisses local economic conditions as irrelevantx, while the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI) state: “there is some evidence that areas with worse economies like the North East ... JSA and ESA 1. Jobseekers Allowance This is the main out-of-work benefit paid to unemployed people actively seeking work. A full explanation of JSA is available on the Citizens Advice website. The Work Programme
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passed by quickly and autumn is already upon us. We’re delighted that over the summer our physical activity programmes have been getting back into communities across Wales. It’s great to hear that people ... Walking, Nordic Walking, Tai Chi and LIFT sessions where they have become available. These sort of activities, which can help you improve your strength, form some of the key messages in our Falls Awareness
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raising 11 4. National developments in advocacy 13 Social Services and Well-being Wales Act (2014) - “the Act” 13 Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 13 Making Voices Heard: Older ... independent advocacy in the period between Advocacy Counts 5 (2016) and Advocacy Counts 6 (2018). The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 places a requirement on local authorities to make advocacy
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contacting people who do not use the internet, and making essential services – energy, telecoms, social care – as robust as possible. Voluntary organisations – including local Age UKs – play an invaluable ... supporting older people during and after a flood. The government should recognise and support this activity. People may need support in the aftermath of a flood, to access trustworthy traders to repair
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on the back of bank cards more visible; • Review banking processes to ensure that safeguarding activities such as closing an account do not stop police investigations prematurely. Digital inclusion ... access to free ATMs can affect local communities (for instance the impacts from a business, tourism, social, demographic and regeneration perspective). In October 2018, Age Cymru participated in a workshop
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project between Age Cymru and Carers Trust Wales, funded by the Welsh Government’s Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant. The project aims to develop person-centred service models to identify
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................................................................................... 4 Health and social care professionals ............................................................................. ... been defined by NICE as: 'the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is paramount
