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Social Care and Sport Committee March 2017 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead ... Befriending Networks (2016) Loneliness in Scotland: A National Summit 4 Evidence for what works and the outcomes for older people in terms of health and wellbeing. 18 If schemes to target loneliness
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wide-ranging work underway to tackle fraud and ‘scams’. It reviews the existing evidence of how older people in particular are affected by the full range of ‘scams’. This gives us, and others working in the ... have decided to use both to help us pull together the full range of evidence, data and stakeholders working in the field. We are clear that ‘scams’ are often sophisticated acts of deception, resulting in significant
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purpose of a falls risk assessment is to: • listen to what you think the problem could be • try to work out what’s making you feel unsteady • agree on an action plan to reduce your risk of falling. 7 Following ... perhaps you’ve simply got out of the habit, and you’re not sure what kind of activity or movement would work for you. Being active doesn’t have to mean doing vigorous exercise or even doing anything outside
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annoyed that you need to ask for help. You might even feel anger towards your body because it doesn’t work the way it used to. It’s normal to feel these things. It can help to talk to friends and family about ... trolleys to help you move items around. If you use a wheelchair, consider installing adjustable-height work surfaces and cupboards, along with a shallow basin. Your home should be fitted with gas, smoke and
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are some simple things you can do in your home to prevent them. Get a smoke alarm and check that it works It’s vital to have at least one smoke alarm on every floor of your home. Alarms should bear the British ... Heaters or appliances that burn gas, coal, oil or wood can give off carbon monoxide if they are not working properly. Signs that appliances may be faulty include yellow or brown staining, a lazy yellow or
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rights in the UK 17 8.1 Human rights impact assessment 17 Useful organisations 18 Age UK 21 Support our work 21 Age UK factsheet 79 August 2024 Equality, discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty ... discrimination. This means discrimination or unfair treatment based on certain personal characteristics when at work, accessing a service, and in certain other situations is unlawful. The Act applies to discrimination
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in pulling together this research with Ipsos MORI. For the 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 ... become more personalised, joined-up and preventative to best serve the interests of service users and work more cost-effectively in the future. While experts often have similar ambitions for future policies
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authority financial assessment (‘means test’) rules work. When conducting a financial assessment for someone who needs to go into a care home and subsequently working out what charge a service user should pay, ... If you are a couple and one of you goes into a care home on a permanent basis, the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) will treat you as two separate individuals for the purposes of assessing eligibility
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citizenship ............................................................................................ 19 Work and Learning .................................................................................... ... social care economy. The project also found:120 o 11% of frailty units provide an outreach service, working with primary and community care to identify people at risk of admission o 63% use a recognised frailty
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people may not be accepted by new providers because of poor credit records. (Although we appreciate the work that has been done to make basic bank accounts available to all, this does not yet apply in the telecoms ... meaning he could not use it.8 The age limit should have been more clearly highlighted. We welcome work by the Financial Conduct Authority to increase customer engagement through ‘switching boxes’ that
