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Creating an age friendly Wales Accessing cash safely – advice for older people during Covid 19 One of the many concerns currently facing older people is being able to access cash and pay for everyday goods ... and services while they follow government advice and stay at home. We’re communicating with hundreds of older people every day through our check-in-andchat service for the isolated over 70s as well as our
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reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this 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 ... Select Committee monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on behalf of the House of Commons and the electorate. It is inviting written evidence for
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Our factsheet has further information on the complaints procedure if you are unsatisfied with the local authority social services department: Factsheet 59w: How to resolve problems and make a complaint ... helpful: Factsheet 78w: Safeguarding older people in Wales from abuse and neglect For more information call Age Cymru Advice on 0300 303 44 98
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Cymru April 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 healthy and fulfilled lives ... 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 Parliamentary Review into Health and Social
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Page 1 of 32 Factsheet 12 Planning your retirement: money and tax May 2024 Inside this factsheet This factsheet looks at common money and tax issues connected with retirement, including dealing with ... useful for people from age 50, although the information is relevant to people looking at planning their retirement at any age. The following factsheets may also be of interest: ⚫ FS19 State Pension ⚫ FS91 Pension
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REGULATION AND INSPECTION OF SOCIAL CARE (WALES) ACT 2016: PHASE 3 IMPLEMENTATION – REGULATED ADVOCACY SERVICES AUGUST 2018 Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in ... awareness of the issues of importance to them. The Golden Thread Advocacy Programme (GTAP) has been funded by Welsh Government for three years to run alongside and support the implementation of Part 10 (Advocacy)
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implement improvements. Yet, access to transport, or the lack of it, can have a profound impact on the quality of life, health and wellbeing of those in later life – for example, 1.45 million people aged ... those without access to a car, reliable public transport or community transport is essential. Benefits of good local transport option include: Preventing social isolation Getting involved in the community:
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suffered as a consequence of under-funding and this situation has been further aggravated in recent years as a result of widespread reductions in public sector budgets. The question of funding social care can ... required to make for the social care they receive. There is a fundamental debate over the basic fairness of charging people for the care and support they have been assessed as needing. Future arrangements for
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others. At the moment life can often be restricted and miserable for those at the less favoured end of the spectrum and they are the older people we should worry about the most. At this General Election ... bring forward policies to help our older population, those in the greatest need above all, with the aim of enabling more people to enjoy the dignified, secure and fulfilling later life we all want for ourselves
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equality and human rights in Wales and the commitment to commence the socio-economic duty - Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010 - in Wales. Commencing the duty means that public bodies will be required to ... 000 pensioners are living in poverty in Wales, which has the highest proportion of older people living in poverty outside of London. We will be looking to Welsh Government to ensure that pensioners in poverty
