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Wales Executive summary About the research Age Cymru’s dementia advocacy project, HOPE (Helping others to participate and engage) advocacy project and Age Cymru Advice all reported worrying delays in older ... wanted to understand: • The scale of the issue of waiting for care for older people across Wales • The local authority plans for care service recovery • The help available for older people who are currently
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Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and accompanying Code of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system in Wales 7 3 Background – obtaining help from your local authority ... Local authority duties in regard to information & advice and advocacy for people assessed as needing a care home 11 4 A care home resident’s right to choose which home they
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is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 1. Introduction 1.1. Of the 569,024 people who died in the UK in 2012, 91 per cent were aged 65 or over; three quarters were age 75+1. One third of ... gaining access to specialist palliative care are in this age group3. 1.2. This last fact should be central to consideration of this inquiry. Despite these numbers, the NHS continues to struggle to properly
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Duty Age matters in public services Expert series c Document purpose To assist public bodies providing services to older people to implement the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. Title Delivering ... guidance on how public bodies can meet these requirements in relation to older people • p resents case studies and good practice examples of public bodies working to improve services to older people. Contact Copies
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Our dementia advocacy project is about enabling people with dementia access to services and support that they need and to have a voice in decisions that are being made.
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2 of 26 Contents 1 Information about this factsheet 3 2 Finding a dentist who offers NHS treatment 3 3 Dental check-ups and treatment plans 3 3.1 Check-ups 3 3.2 Frequency of check-ups ... 8 5 ‘Cosmetic’ treatment 9 6 Help with charges for NHS dental treatment 9 6.1 Automatic entitlement to free NHS dental treatment 10 6.2 The NHS Low Income Scheme (LIS) 10 7 Urgent and out-of-hours treatment
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ASSESSMENT TOOL · INTRODUCTION Purpose The purpose of this Self Assessment Tool is to ascertain organisational readiness to comply with the Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) and its strategic intent. The ... Advocacy Project (GTAP) support you to achieve the aspirations of the Act. Key points that we would like to underline: This tool is for you to use in an iterative way. It can be adapted and revisited as time
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Age Cymru has a Board of Trustees to monitor Age Cymru's strategic objectives. The Senior Management work closely with the Trustees to carry out the day-to-day running of Age Cymru. Chair - Professor John ... member of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Human Rights of Older People, provided evidence to the joint House of Lords and House of Commons Committee on the draft Mental Incapacity Bill, and between
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currently the bill makes no reference to quality of information, other than the requirement for the new body to set standards for services it provides When having regard to information and guidance provided ... provision exists, the new body is unlikely to be duplicating information provided by firms, as this information is unlikely to be impartial When having regard to the cost effectiveness of provision, the
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Inequality The Budget did little to help to close the gap between the richest and the poorest pensioners The Budget allows more affluent older people to be able to leave more of their estate free of ... missing out of £3.7 billion of means-tested benefits to which they are entitled Material deprivation Over a million pensioners in this country cannot afford to replace a cooker if it breaks down Over four
