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telephone befriending team to connect with older people on a weekly 30 minute friendship call. You can find out more about this role, and register as a volunteer on the Volunteering Wales website. Once ... induction process. Following induction and training, we'll then want to find out a bit about you so we can find your match. We'll match you with an older person based on your interests, hobbies, beliefs, background
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The authority has a legal duty to carry out an assessment of anyone living in its area who may need community care services, once it becomes aware of this need. Our factsheet has detailed ... on how people providing care on an informal basis – for example, a family member who helps to care for a relative – can access support or assistance for this role. There is also a link to a briefer information
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to: Barbara Limon, Jane Vass, Sally West and all those who contributed additional material, comments and suggestions. Thanks also to residents who have helped us develop our work on retirement housing over ... affordably. We are not building enough of the right type of retirement housing to tempt older people who might wish to downsize. Many of the options that do exist are only available to a relatively small
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the provision of specialist volunteer support services for older carers of an older family member who is nearing the end of life. These are posited within the context of a small scale service evaluation ... within same household caring relationships • Multiple caregiving roles exist whereby older carers can be supporting spouses, siblings, their children or their sibling’s children, within their own households
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recognised is not the ‘oldness’ of a person, but their individuality. It is this individuality that can so easily become submerged and hidden from view in the pressure caldron that characterises our contemporary ... This Older People’s Narrative serves to remind us of vital core values to which we all might lay claim – but restated through the eyes of an older person. In a sense, it is a shame that there is a need
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use. This means the person with dementia will be at the heart of the decision making process, and we can support and represent them without any conflict of interest For most people, making their own decisions ... advocacy services for people living with dementia. The need for advocacy for people with dementia, who face complex issues around social exclusion and deteriorating cognitive function is much broader than
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is exacerbated by the fact that nearly 60% of male prisoners over the age of 60 are sex offenders who may find themselves ostracised by the rest of the prison community. Older prisoners have the same needs ... may have no family or community links or have elderly spouses and parents who either have special requirements of their own or who need to travel miles to visit. Older prisoners are harder to resettle because
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report would like to thank: Vinal K Karania, Devna Vickerman and David Terrace of Age UK National who liaised with the research team throughout the project, and provided appropriate data and information ... all those involved in the fit for the future programme who generously gave their time to participate in the research, including the older people who participated, local Age UK partners, local stakeholders
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cope. This includes people with health conditions, people experiencing cognitive decline and those who live alone and are socially isolated. We welcome the fact that FRMPs include a focus on people, as ... knowledge of older people’s needs, but is also based on recent interviews with several local Age UKs who have provided services and support to older people affected by recent floods. In an ageing society
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AARP with support from Age UK to offer the best possible advice about what adults age 50 and older can do to maintain and improve their brain health. GCBH members come together to discuss specific lifestyle ... interested in learning what they can do to maintain their brain health as they age. An abundance of sources are now available for people to find information, but it can be difficult to know what the weight
