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bearing or effect on this basic right.1 Age does not diminish an individual’s right to live with dignity and respect.2 We welcome proposals in Welsh Government’s Strategy for an Ageing Society Strategy to implement ... duties and powers so that adult protection is undertaken effectively by all key agencies. Other tools to protect adults from abuse include renewed policy, increased public awareness, training, and access
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of 3 Job Description Job Title: Project Officer Location: Hybrid (Home) but working across Powys and Ceredigion Contractual Status of Role: Part time, 28 hours per week, fixed term until 31st March 2025 ... project objectives by co-producing and implementing a regional framework for the development of advocacy across the region and supporting its delivery, and to recruit, train and support suitable volunteers within
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oed gyfeillgar A One-Stop-Shop Guide for Older Carers in Wales A guide for identifying, signposting, and supporting older carers in Wales Creating an age friendly Wales 2 A One-Stop-Shop Guide for ... Cymru’s Carers Project 3 Identifying and supporting older unpaid carers in Wales 4 Your rights 5 Carers needs assessment 6 Should I talk to my GP? 8 Benefits and financial help 9 Benefits calculators
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healthy and active, this briefing makes the case for: • Building the effects of demographic change into budgets • Developing a more strategic approach to ageing and improved cross-sector and crossdepartment ... most vulnerable • Delivery in full on existing statutory obligations and safeguards • Sustaining prevention • Placing proportionality and equality at the heart of all decisions Introduction Local authorities
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32 Factsheet 43 Getting legal and financial advice May 2024 About this factsheet This factsheet helps you to get the legal help you need, including legal information and advice on civil matters (where ... organisation). It does not cover criminal matters. It covers free advice from local and national independent advice agencies and legal information online, as well as getting paid-for advice from a solicitor
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..................................................................... 3 Writing to the Chancellor and your MP .............................................................. 4 Meeting your MP ......... ... virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is the wrong decision. We’re working alongside Age UK, and our other partner charities Age Scotland and Age Northern
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Loneliness and isolation are a daily reality for many older people; 75,000 older people in Wales have reported ‘always or often’ feeling lonely. Feeling lonely has many detrimental effects on older people ... people, and there is increasing evidence of the negative impacts on physical and mental health. There is strong evidence that loneliness can increase the pressure on a wide range of local authority and health
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Christine Milligan Dr Mary Turner International Observatory on End of Life Care Faculty of Health and Medicine Lancaster University i Executive Summary: This report presents findings from an independent ... Programme. Six local Age UK organisations in England were funded to provide practical and emotional support to older cares, and to establish the potential role of trained volunteer delivered interventions in
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as required. Key areas will be: 1. Cardiff & Vale and Morgannwg 2. Gwent (Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Newport, Caerphilly, Torfaen) 3. Swansea and Neath Port Talbot 4. Carmarthen & Pembrokeshire Contractual ... community level and to support and oversee the establishment and running of a regional advocacy volunteer network, working closely and in collaboration with the local Age Connects and Age Cymru partners
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Falls Awareness Week Briefing Building on past successes and aligned with prudent healthcare approaches, we are putting our older citizens at the heart of #FallsAwareness2021 ... No, all we require is your time. #FallsAwareness2021 week is taking place from July 12th to 18th and our only ask is that you take 2 minutes to talk to older people that use your service. Falls Awareness
