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work with our five local Age Cymru partners to improve the lives of older people in Wales. We’ve a shared vision of an age friendly Wales and together we work to make life better for older people in Wales ... 2. What are we marketing? (i) Our Hope Project We’re seeking to market our HOPE (Helping others participate and engage) project, to support older people (50+) and their carers. The project is funded
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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 who are ... behind. There is a growing recognition that too many of our communities are significantly underprepared to manage the challenges and unlock the potential of our ageing population. In a significantly challenging
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originally designed to treat episodes of acute illness and injury, and communicable disease. Although the NHS has been evolving to meet changing health needs for some time, there is an urgent need to increase the ... service transformation to meet the needs of an ageing population living with non-communicable, chronic conditions. Older people, wherever they live, should have free and fair access to health and care services
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Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 1. Introduction Age UK is the country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We help more than 5 million people every year, providing ... advice and companionship for older people who need it most. We run programmes to help people keep warm in winter, including support to shop around and switch energy supplier. In March, the Competition and Markets
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Demographics In recent years the United Kingdom has seen major, and contradictory, changes in attitudes to religion. Some minority religious groups have significantly increased their numbers while overall, ... different ways of measuring religiosity: based on loose cultural affiliation; based on ‘belonging’ to a religion, or identifying as religious; based on believing in the core tenets of a particular religion;
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Home Affairs Select Committee: Inquiry into Hate Crime and its violent consequences Ref 3516 August 2016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic ... London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this call for evidence The Home Affairs Committee has announced an inquiry into hate crime and its consequences in response to a number of recent events namely; The rise in the
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Safeguards (DoLS). These relate to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions about their care and treatment, and who are deprived of their liberty in a care home or hospital. This factsheet covers ... capacity is in factsheet 22, Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period March 2024 to February 2025. The information in this factsheet
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national 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 ... 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 to The Economy
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1 Policy Statement Carers November 2016 Summary According to recent figures there are more than 384 000 carers1 living in Wales, representing 12.1% of the Welsh population (the average across England ... The Welsh Government defines a carer as “anyone of any age, who provides unpaid care and support to a relative, friend or neighbour who is disabled, physically or mentally ill, or affected by substance
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government for statutory social care services; and the financial contribution that individuals are required to make for the social care they receive. There is a fundamental debate over the basic fairness of charging ... aspire over time towards universal access to personal care free at the point of delivery. Age Cymru’s longstanding view is that a far more equitable system would be to ensure that care services are provided
