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Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all 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 seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond
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Conference Public Hearings Public Hearings Key facts about the Inquiry ● Set up in 2015 to investigate organisations and institutions that have failed to protect children from sexual abuse ● Led by Chair, Professor ... Supported by a Victims and Survivors’ Consultative Panel ● Independent of government ● Does not have the power to convict people of criminal offences, determine civil liability or award compensation ● Inquiry
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Advocacy Services in Cardiff In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services below. Children Self advocacy ... under the mental health act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA
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can be in serious danger. Those who rely on an oxygen machine or stairlift, who can’t easily get out of the house or who live alone may be at risk. The nightmare scenario is an older person alone and cut-off ... cut-off in a crisis – this is what we must work to avoid. The Government recognises that our changing climate poses a growing threat to particular groups. The energy and financial services industries are
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AgeUKIG01 Keeping yourself safe at home, out and about and online. Staying safe. 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining ... affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide relatable examples that benefit others. Email your story to stories@ageuk
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agree that the three overall objectives are appropriate? If not, what should they be? We tend to agree. Age Cymru welcomes the positive development of an action plan to tackle some of the root causes ... harm and neglect in relation to older people. We feel that the plan would benefit from some restructuring: i. Clearer direction is needed on how the individual elements of the plan come together with an
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Response to the ‘Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its management on health and social care in Wales’ consultation 8th September 2022 Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives ... 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 seek to provide a strong voice for
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Response to the Housing standards review: consultation (Department of Communities and Local Government) Ref: 2713 Date: October 2013 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper ... paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. Name: Joe Oldman Email:
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Age Matters The quarterly newsletter from Age Cymru Spring Edition 2021 Creating an age friendly Wales www.agecymru.org.uk facebook.com/agecymru twitter.com/agecymru 2 The quarterly newsletter from Age ... amongst all the noise By Victoria Lloyd, Chief Executive, March 2021 There is no doubting that we’re living in unprecedented times as we mark a year of lockdown following the onset of Covid 19 at the beginning
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findings 5 Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life 8 How is older people’s wellbeing across 9 the whole population? Who is struggling and who is doing well? 10 Some conclusions 12 Some questions 13 And ... Age UK needs to understand more about how well older people in the UK are doing. We need to know where and why people are not doing well to inform our work and gain an understanding of the policy and practical
