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frailty with the people experiencing it. “Frailty” is all at once a medical term, an adjective, a noun and for many, a judgement. Deciding exactly how we wanted to refer to it was an early challenge in pulling ... older people that participated in this work, it was not a word they associated with themselves. They all, however, had an idea of what it meant in others. We use it here to capture a range of needs, typically
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Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, October 2022 As the nights draw in and the leaves start to turn, it is inevitable that we start to think about winter. This edition you can find out how to get hold of a ... Winter Wrapped Up guide and about the work Nest are doing in Wales to help with energy issues which is particularly pertinent when energy prices have figured so highly in the news this year. We are delighted
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disabled older people who receive Attendance Allowance September 2016 Introduction The Government is asking for views on transferring support currently provided to disabled older people through Attendance ... academic analysis shows that AA is currently well targeted on the poorest and most disabled older people1 and other reports and anecdotal evidence demonstrate the important role it plays. For example, qualitative
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the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 5 3 What is community landlord housing? 7 3.1 Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) 8 4 How can you get community ... as a result of recent legislative changes in Wales – see section 2 below – the most up to date term is ‘community landlord housing’ (therefore, we will generally use the latter description in this factsheet)
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promotion and protection of the rights of older people should be a priority in the Strategy. A key priority is to determine how to embed awareness of a rights based approach. Older people need to know how they ... online information is not to the detriment of the provision of information in other formats. We welcome proposals to implement a national plan to prevent abuse of older people. There is low awareness of
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through a Marie Curie Fellowship. “The involvement of local residents in this study, as co-researchers, is a significant contribution to the city’s Age-Friendly Manchester programme. The approach recognises ... have faced significant budget reductions, often leading to hard-pressed departments finding it difficult to do what would appear instinctively right: to use a range of techniques to capture the views of different
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this Self Assessment Tool is to ascertain organisational readiness to comply with the Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) and its strategic intent. The Self Assessment Tool itself is structured in four sections ... cycle: analyse, plan, do, review.1 It should be noted that is not an audit instrument through which a ‘performance management’ assessment might be made, but rather it should help the Golden Thread Advocacy
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Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales September 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people ... provide carers with recognition of their skills and opportunities to develop them. However, there is concern that the accreditation programme may pigeonhole carers’ skills within a social care context
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