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5. Addressing the issues 18 Increasing community resilience – micro enterprises, low level care and edge of care services 18 How local authorities are reducing waiting lists 19 Support for unpaid ... to social care. We’re grateful to the 11 social care leads, local authority commissioning officers and community team leaders that team members that spoke to us about what’s happening in their areas. 2
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these questions: 1. Which areas will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement? Please say for whom and why. 2. What would help users overcome any challenges? (For example, existing ... very different practical barriers to delivering effective end of life care in hospital, a care home, and a person’s own home, for example. Availability of nursing support, particularly out of hours in the
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reach 2 million steps. This is equal to one complete circuit of Wales by land via the Wales Coast Path and Offa’s Dyke Trail. It may seem a tall order, but we are sure that with the combined efforts of everyone ... R O M E S W A N This September, get fit and healthy whilst enjoying our wonderful scenery and take a Big Step around Wales. Set yourself an individual goal and know you’ll be contributing to our challenge
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to health appointments 6 • Accessing GP surgeries and appointments 9 • Access to treatment and ongoing checks 10 • Access to surgical procedures and in-patient care 11 • Access to dental services 12 ... 24 • Isolation and loneliness 26 • Transport 28 • Blue badge applications 30 • Housing 31 • Bereavement and grief 33 • Scams 35 Unpaid carers 37 • Unpaid carers accessing health and social care 38
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volunteers and can be delivered virtually over Zoom. Safeguarding is staff and volunteers’ responsibility; it’s everyone’s duty to keep adults who need care and support safe from abuse and neglect. This ... all Staff and Volunteers feel confident and supported by line managers and safeguarding, should they need to respond to any safeguarding concerns or disclosures whilst in their role. A safe and confidential
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all ages 2 MHP Health was commissioned by the RCS to research and draft the report. MHP Health is an award-winning specialist health policy and communications consultancy. For further details please contact ... the over-65s and over-75s 21 Figure 3 Variation by CCG in breast excision rates for the over-75s 21 Figure 4 Distribution of colorectal excision rates across CCGs for the over-65s and over-75s 24
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health and wellbeing The Cascade Training Programme supported organisations to empower their volunteers and staff to help older people from ‘hard to engage’ groups to improve their physical, mental and social ... peer buddies and mentors, to motivate and encourage vulnerable older men to take part in new activities. Moving Movements Training for volunteers in the importance of understanding faith and culture when
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million people aged 65 and over living with sight loss in the UK. This number is rising because of the ageing population yet the number receiving support is falling. The number of blind and partially sighted ... sighted people receiving social care fell by 35% between 2008 and 2013. The resulting unmet need had considerable consequences for wider health and wellbeing. Compared with the general older population, older
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appointment is enough to worry about but imagine having to make the journey alone, in chronic pain and having to take three different buses to get there. This is the reality for many of the older people ... urgently review the way older people travel to their hospital appointments. This report outlines how poor and inadequate transport options impact on older people travelling to hospital for non-emergency medical
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friendly Wales Experiences of people aged 50 or over in Wales during the winter Covid-19 lockdown, and the road to recovery Survey Results May 2021 Contents Page 1. About this research 3 2. Accessing information ... lockdown 6 4. Challenges during lockdown 7 5. The impact of lockdown 9 6. Experience of accessing Health and Care services 10 7. Easing of lockdown 18 8. Challenges of moving out of lockdown 19 9. Support needed
