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all HOPE project news Staffing update The HOPE project has seen a couple of organisational changes recently. Deiniol Jones who started with the project as the Volunteer Co-ordinator for Cardiff & Vale ... Development Officer for Gwent has taken over the role of Volunteer Co-ordinator for Swansea, Neath Port Talbot. Active recruitment has taken place to complete the HOPE project team and we’re now delighted
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response Impact of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 in relation to carers Welsh Assembly August 2018 Introduction 1. Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older ... older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape their own future. We
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2 The Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last ‘Spring’ Budget on 8 March (as Budgets will in future take place in the Autumn). In a document that was light on surprises, most of the key ... points having been well-signalled beforehand, social care finally received some welcome attention. This briefing picks out the main points, but the full documents are available here: https://www.gov.u
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Prescribing Framework Welsh Government October 2022 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 ... access to high quality 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.
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older people and ageing are pervasive in our society. In common with most other forms of discrimination, ageism is based on inaccurate stereotypes, and often in the case of older people, assumptions about ... due to their age. An effect of ageism is that older people frequently experience discriminatory treatment. As a result society is failing to benefit fully from the valuable resources that older people offer
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Statement Carers August 2019 Summary The Welsh Government defines a carer as “anyone of any age, who provides unpaid care and support to a relative, friend or neighbour who is disabled, physically or mentally ... or affected by substance misuse”1. According to the 2011 census, there were 369,186 carers2 living in Wales, representing 12% of the population, the highest proportion of carers of all UK countries.
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Purpose: To meet the project objectives by recruiting, inducting, training and supporting suitable volunteers as part of the Listen and Connect Service. Main Responsibilities: 1. Implement the volunteer recruitment ... recruitment plan. 2. Process all volunteer applications in a timely and professional way, taking the prospective volunteers through the recruitment process. 3. Provide support to volunteers through their
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cARTrefu, Age Cymru’s arts in care homes project, will continue until August 2021. cARTrefu May 2019 We are so pleased to announce...... cARTrefu will continue until 2021! Activity packs still ... Changes to the team The cARTrefu Family HRH The Prince of Wales visited a cARTrefu workshop in Neath The cARTrefu Film On the road with the cARTrefu Cube And finally ... The Age Friendly
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fit as a fiddle is a programme run by Age UK and funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of the Wellbeing programme www.ageuk.org.uk www.fitasafiddle.org.uk ... Prepared by: Sarah Alden Andrea Wigfield Erika Kispeter CIRCLE (Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities) University of Leeds 2 Contents Executive Summary .....................
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Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine – background information There was originally a universal 2 dose primary course of the vaccine offered from December 2020 to the whole population (aged ... over 5). This was ended by the Welsh Government on 30 June 2023. Booster vaccine campaigns for those most at risk have continued periodically since then. Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine – booster
