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stay in the community. There is a separate scheme for Wales called the Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF) The information in this factsheet is correct for the period June 2024 to May 2025. The information ... applies to England and Wales. Please contact Age Scotland or Age NI for information applicable to these nations. Contact details for any organisation mentioned in this factsheet can be found in the Useful
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Page 1 of 3 Job Description Job Title: Dementia Advocate Location: Cardiff for the post delivering across Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Contractual Status of Role: Full time, 35 hours per week ... and develop the service. Main Responsibilities: 1. To provide independent, person led advocacy for people a diagnosis of dementia, enabling them to express their views, wishes and concerns. 2. To enable
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Page 1 of 3 Job Description Job Title: Dementia Advocate Location: Cardiff for the post delivering across Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Contractual Status of Role: Full time, 35 hours per week ... and develop the service. Main Responsibilities: 1. To provide independent, person led advocacy for people a diagnosis of dementia, enabling them to express their views, wishes and concerns. 2. To enable
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sure that local Age UKs were confident in their ability to support people with dementia and their carers through mainstream services wherever possible. Innovations in Dementia CIC provided consultancy ... about accessibility for people with dementia results in services and buildings that are more accessible for everyone. We hope that you will be inspired to consider what is possible for people living with
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reading 41 Delivering the Equality Duty • October 2011 2 Introduction The Equality Act 2010 introduces for the fi rst time a duty on public bodies to promote age equality. This offers a major opportunity to ... Delivering the Equality Duty • October 2011 5 Our ageing society The older population is large and growing. For the fi rst time in history, there are now over 10 million people in the UK aged 65 and above.1 More
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an age friendly Wales ‘Being a Friend’ Who can be a ‘Friend’? • Potentially anyone in Wales who is not self-isolating can be a ‘Friend’ if they know someone who needs support locally. • You may already ... ‘Friend’ necessary? • Many people in Wales have family nearby who are their support during this time, but others, individuals or couples, who are social distancing, self-isolating or shielding and don’t
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able to manage. The following pages take you step by step through what you need to go and where to go for help.
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ageing and Older People Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect Wednesday 7 December Notes On Wednesday 7th December, the APPG for Ageing and Older People hosted ... options around safeguarding adults than ever before, access to criminal justice responses for older adults who have experienced abuse remains low and the abuse of older people is still largely a ‘hidden
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Centre for Research on Ageing • Briefing Paper 1 • September 2014 www.southampton.ac.uk/ageing Ethnicity and occupational ... ethnic minority reduces one’s chances of working for an employer who offers a pension scheme, while, once an individual is working for an employer who offers a pension scheme, the effect of ethnicity on
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Velda, 76 Our year Annual Review 2013/14 Age UK’s vision is for a world where everyone can love later life. We know it’s ambitious, because for many people growing older can bring challenges. But that doesn’t ... following the Philippines typhoon. Our year at a glance 4 Over 24,000 campaigners helped us argue for better care. 260,000 people reached through our winter warmth programmes. 167 local partners covering
