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Government Association Community Wellbeing Board, and the lead member for Health and Adult Social Care in the London Borough of Havering. Councillor Ford – Councillor Ford explained that although life expectancy ... government. She added however that it was important to remember that integration was not a solution in itself to the system’s financial challenges and that it was a way of delivering care more effectively
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the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe that older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services and the opportunity to shape ... older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. Introduction We are pleased to respond to the Welsh Government’s consultation about local toilets strategies in Wales. Public
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44 98 www.agecymru.org.uk Factsheet 38w June 2024 Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision in Wales Factsheet 38w June 2024 ... system in Wales 7 2.1 The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and accompanying Code of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system in Wales
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delays in access to social care in Wales for people aged 55 and over. We continue to hear from older people about worrying delays in getting social care assessments and delays in getting care in place. ... struggling to understand charging arrangements for social care services. Conclusions 1. The surge in demand for social care following the pandemic in 2021 to 2022 has reduced and the efforts local authorities
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the project and want to take this opportunity to remind everyone what HOPE is all about and the service and opportunity we provide. Age Cymru’s HOPE project provides independent advocacy support to ... crisis situation. HOPE is a Welsh Government funded project running until the end of March 2025 and is in partnership with Age Connects Wales and local Age Cymru partners. HOPE is committed to helping others
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one day in any of the UK armed services, including national service, reservists or active in the merchant navy. Former armed forces personnel can have difficulties coping after leaving the service and, in ... in particular, accessing the health and social care they need to live a fulfilled life. Project 360° aims to ensure that services provided by project partners are meeting the needs of older military veterans
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yourself and your home warm despite the financial challenges. And our recently launched More Money in Your Pocket guide will help you meet your food, fuel and other key winter costs. We recently published ... survey filter into much of the work featured in this edition. We’ll also update you on several of our campaigns such as maintaining face-to-face banking services, developing sustainable public transport,
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assist in increasing equality for LGBTQ+ people in Wales. It would be helpful if further detail were included on how actions will be achieved. We welcome the intersectional approach of the plan in recognition ... recognition of how discrimination impacts people differently in different circumstances. As such the incremental experiences over time for older LGBTQ+ people should be captured and understood, and so appropriate
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issue for older people IN-DEPTH POLICY REPORT 2 Introduction For most of us just having a hospital appointment is enough to worry about but imagine having to make the journey alone, in chronic pain and having ... raise and the ideas we propose are based on: focus group discussions with older people’s groups in Newcastle and Falmouth1, which particularly highlighted the differences between rural and urban transport
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million people in the UK and 846 million people internationally who have now reached later life, but also to speak for the long-term interests of every one of us. We do so by working with partners in the UK and ... International to fund programmes in more than 40 developing countries. Like most in the charity sector, we faced a tough economic climate in 2012–13. But despite a 5.2 per cent drop in income, we reduced our charitable
