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empathy with the needs of older people • Reliability, patience and sensitivity • Outgoing and confident What can you gain from this role? • Meet and make friendships with new people • The appropriate training ... references if required 2 • Appreciation of mobility restrictions and how best to be able to support older people • understanding dementia and how it affects those diagnosed and their families • A chance to
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Information written with you in mind. This information guide has been produced with the help of older people, carers and expert peer reviewers. Published: August 2023. 3 Contents. What this guide is about ... ways to get out and about 27. Useful organisations 32. 4 What this guide is about. For many people, driving is about more than just getting from A to B. Driving gives us freedom and a feeling of independence
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Creating an age friendly Wales Advocacy Counts 5 A review of advocacy services for older people in Wales November 2016 1 1. Contents 1. Contents 2 2. Acknowledgements 3 3. Executive Summary 4 4. Introduction ... 19 7. Analysis 21 Advocacy services funded specifically for older people in Wales 21 Advocacy services for a wider client group but older people are supported as part of the service 21 Language 22 Quality
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Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access ... 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 importance to them. We are pleased to respond
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prompt and encourage discussion with the local public sector on the key issues affecting services for people in later life within the current climate of spending cuts and public services reform. In summary ... enterprise working to transform later life in the UK and overseas. Our vision is of a world in which older people flourish. Together with over 160 local Age UKs, we work alongside national and local government
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rules for different types of care home placement 9 5 Welfare benefits during temporary care in a care home 13 5.1 Disability benefits – ... for a short-term or temporary stay in a care home differs from a long-term / permanent placement. People may go into a care home on a short-term or temporary basis for a variety of reasons. For example:
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Age Friendly Places Making our community a great place to grow older 2 3 As we all live longer, more of us will need to get out and about as consumers, to volunteer, to work and as care givers. We will ... and the communities they serve, there is a real need to work together to remove the barriers older people face to participating in their communities. Our vision is that everyone can live well in later
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fit as a fiddle 2013-2015 portfolio The programme builds on Age UK’s experience of the ‘Including People with Dementia – Shaping Generic Services project’ (pioneers cohort), as well as other projects developed ... Age UKs to examine and review ways in which they can shape their services to be more inclusive of people living with dementia. • To enable more local Age UKs to become dementia friendly organisations. •
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fit as a fiddle 2013-2015 portfolio The programme builds on Age UK’s experience of the ‘Including People with Dementia – Shaping Generic Services project’ (pioneers cohort), as well as other projects developed ... Age UKs to examine and review ways in which they can shape their services to be more inclusive of people living with dementia. • To enable more local Age UKs to become dementia friendly organisations. •
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the labour market has changed for older workers, making it an insufficient – and even misleading – tool for public policy decision-making. While headline rates for older workers have increased since the ... worked This reduction in hours worked demonstrates there is more to recent labour market changes for older workers than often reported, and has obvious knock-on consequences for income and pension saving.
