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lead the decision making? • Get the right support you need when you need it? • Be supported to say what matters to you and why? • Understand information about services or your rights? • Understand your ... to help you access and understand information and make informed choices • Someone to represent you if you need them to • Someone to help you be heard Independent Advocacy: supporting you to be informed
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Referendum on 23 June, this paper sets out some possible implications for older people. These are very far from clear, at present, so this paper also looks forward: what are the areas of public policy where ... where the EU has particularly touched older people’s lives, what are the questions that older people have raised with us, and what will be Age UK’s priorities, as the policy agenda develops, to ensure a better
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Government launched a consultation on their Draft mental health and wellbeing strategy.5 In our latest ‘What matters to you?’ survey, just under a fifth of older people across Wales told us that their mental ... enjoying the restorative powers and wellbeing benefits of spending time outdoors. The project goes out several times a week with different groups across Pembrokeshire, and project activities are designed
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the criteria. Some officers apply a reasonable interpretation of the guidelines, while others take what seems to us to be a very harsh approach. This is particularly true in the case of people with mental ... in Wales. We hope that these comments are useful and would be happy to provide further information if requested.
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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 ... Support from staff at Age Cymru and the care home • Great experience for your CV, and work references if required 2 • Appreciation of mobility restrictions and how best to be able to support older people
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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 ... Support from staff at Age Cymru and the care home • Great experience for your CV, and work references if required 2 • A chance to make a real difference by bringing together residents and their family or
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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 need to ensure that those ... communities. Our vision is that everyone can live well in later life. Living longer is a huge opportunity if we adapt our neighbourhoods and communities to work for us as we age. As we grow older, we often spend
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younger workers out of the labour market is one derivation of the ‘lump of labour fallacy’, which refutes the idea that there is only a fixed amount of work in the economy to be shared out. This briefing ... more prosperous by paying more of its citizens to be idle is clearly nonsensical. On that reasoning, if the retirement age came down to 25 we would all be as rich as Croesus.’i The view that there is a
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the number of hours per week they’re caring, their opinions on support for older unpaid carers, and what three things would make their life easier. The survey received 537 responses and respondents range ... continue to work in partnership with the Welsh Government to address the concerns set out in this report. To find out more about the project and how to contact the team, take a look at our website: agecymru
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an advert from Age Cymru looking for volunteers to teach Tai Chi I knew I had found exactly what I wanted. What difference to your life has volunteering made to you? As well as introducing me to Tai Chi ... learn has been mentally stimulating. It’s also added some structure to my week following retirement What do you enjoy most about your volunteering experience? There are many. I get joy from teaching older
