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or over in Wales of the Covid-19 pandemic This survey is a follow up to the second survey we undertook in February to April 2021 for people aged 50 or over across Wales. It’s being undertaken by key organisations ... experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact this has had on them. Our previous two surveys focused on experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. Through this survey we want to gather the current
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This information guide is to help ‘Friends’ supporting people they know in their local community - who may be self-isolating, social distancing or shielding. Further support If the person you’re helping is ... by contacting Age Cymru Advice on 08000 223 444, available 9:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday, or email advice@agecymru.org.uk If the person you’re helping is aged under 50, you can get further support
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Age & Dementia Friendly Gymnastics Programme An Evaluation of the British Gymnastics Foundation Pilot Vinal K Karania Research Manager (Evaluation & Impact) Research ... Acknowledgements The author of this report would like to thank the British Gymnastics Foundation (in particular Patrick Bonner), the activity coach (Kim Hall), representatives of the participating organisations
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for and why it has been developed? YES If the answer is no please tell us below what can we do to achieve this? Age Cymru welcomes the development of a framework to support bereaved people in Wales. This ... reducing inequalities across Wales in access to bereavement support and help to address the stigma of talking about dying and end of life care. Access to bereavement services is inconsistent across Wales
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SM The Brain and Social Connectedness: GCBH Recommendations on Social Engagement and Brain Health The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) is an independent collaborative of scientists, health professionals ... and policy experts from around the world working in areas of brain health related to human cognition. The GCBH focuses on brain health relating to people’s ability to think and reason as they age, including
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1 Tell Me More Report on the care home resident engagement project The aim of the Tell Me More project funded by Welsh Government in line with the Care Home Action Plan Care homes action plan: final ... GOV.WALES is to discover what life has been like for older people living in care homes during the Covid Pandemic. The outcome will be a written report and short animated film featuring the voices of care
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you all. We’d love to connect with some of your residents to find how they are doing at the moment via zoom. Having a chat can really help wellbeing in general but we’d also like to record resident’s thoughts ... which may help to shape future care policy. For more info email suzy.webster@agecymru.org.uk. This is the link to our pilot film taken from the voices of the residents: https://youtu.be/SdMpbCOlG2E Creating
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Housing Associations’ responses to tenants with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups Valerie Lipman, Jill Manthorpe About the Authors Valerie Lipman has worked in the older people’s voluntary sector ... race and ethnicity in the sector. She is currently a post-doctoral research intern at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London. Jill Manthorpe is Director of the Social Care Workforce
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Moors Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD Question 1: The Strategy sets out the areas we will prioritise in planning for our ageing society and why. Have we prioritised the right areas? Comments: We welcome a rights ... based approach, as we believe that the promotion and protection of the rights of older people should be a priority in the Strategy. A key priority is to determine how to embed awareness of a rights based
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Cymru is the leading 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 and the 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
