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There are different ways you can access telecare services: You may be eligible for help from your local council. Contact your local adult social services department and ask for a free care needs assessment ... assessment. Depending on your needs, you may have a telecare service provided. Ask whether there’s a trial telecare scheme in place so you can make sure it’s suited to your needs. Speak to your GP or an occupational
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selling anti-scam technology, or from someone demanding money to renew your Telephone Preference Service registration, which is actually free. Be alert to all of these. Check a charity’s registration ... block or prevent some cold calls. Try these simple things: Register with the Telephone Preference Service – it's free and it allows you to opt out of any unsolicited live telesales calls. This should reduce
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move to a guaranteed hours contract, provided they meet certain conditions relating to length of service and past working patterns. Zero Hours Contracts May 2016 August 2015 2 2. Introduction ... perform work or services is an undertaking to do so conditionally on the employer making work or services available to the workers, and (b) there is no certainty that any such work or services will be made
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this basic right. Abuse can occur in a person’s own home or whilst they are receiving a service – for example in a hospital or care home. The abuse may be perpetrated by a friend, family member
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UK or Age Cymru, or Citizens Advice for information. 6 Water resale If you buy water or sewerage services from another person or company, for example, your landlord, instead of directly from a water or ... sewerage company, you are protected by maximum water resale rules. Anyone reselling water or sewerage services should not charge more than the amount they are charged by the water company, plus a reasonable
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2. What would help users overcome any challenges? (For example, existing practical resources or national initiatives, or examples of good practice.) See section 3.9 of Developing NICE guidance: how to ... commissioned services relevant to a local area, particularly where there are large concentrations of older people or care and nursing homes. Guaranteeing seven day palliative care services, regardless of
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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 ... over 70s as well as our usual Advice services, has issued a brief statement to support older people. Age Cymru’s chief executive, Victoria Lloyd explains: “Many older people have become used to accessing
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wellbeing over time. 6. Can I use it to evaluate wellbeing of older people who use my programme/service/etc.? The Index is not an evaluation tool and cannot, at present, be used to measure the changes ... improvements in particular aspects (such as participation) that may occur due to a programme or service. 7. How much weight should we put on the Index? The construction of Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing
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Health and mobility 52 Area 54 The presence of family and friends 57 Access to networks, information, services, advice and advocacy 59 The role of ‘savings’ 61 Conclusion 62 6 Conclusions 63 References 66 3Living ... helped to stretch their limited means further. They were also apprehensive about the removal of services that were currently available and enhanced their quality of life. Key findings ‘Annual income twenty
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opportunity to undertake Walk Leader Training - you will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check - Age Cymru will cover the costs of checks and training - you will be required to commit to
