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cARTrefu Phase 3, Age Cymru’s arts in care homes project, will continue until August 2021. Phase 3 is focusing on empowering care home staff to improve the range and quality of creative provision ... sustainability. Thanks to the further funding from the Baring Foundation and Arts Council Wales, cARTrefu will be delivering care home workshops, activity plans, and artist workshops free of charge throughout
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this resource to spark conversations around mental health in care. We hope that these discussions will inspire care home staff to explore new ways of recognising the things that are meaningful to people ... media in that language. Similarly, there may be community groups who speak that language who may be willing to socialise with the individual or even host activities at the home. 6 Case study : Welsh in care
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by the FCA and the development of appropriate remedies. Access to physical banking services As FCA will be aware, the BBA recently announced an “access to banking protocol” that sets out the procedures ... business community, that withdrawal of physical banking services from smaller towns and rural communities will impose significant detriment on local residents and businesses. One Age UK correspondent described
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of the current DoLS regime, adequate resources to ensure effective implementation of any new scheme will be crucial. • A core principle of the new scheme should be that restrictive care or treatment should ... comprehensive assessment of older people’s views on this sensitive matter but we sense that at least some will resist having their homes labelled as ‘gilded cages’, despite the protections such a label may afford
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public in action on climate change. Engagement with the general public about climate policies that will affect them and their communities is important so that people can share their views and lived experiences ... decarbonisation may present to low income and vulnerable households, for example, whether available grants will be sufficient to cover the costs associated with the proposed switch from gas boilers to low-carbon
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improving wellbeing. Responding to this gap, we have created an Index of Wellbeing in Later Life, which will support evidence-informed advocacy and policymaking, with coherent and person-centred quantitative ... into account that indicators are also related to each other. Further details about the indicators will be in our full report, and definitions including examples from USoc are online and in the appendix
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achievement for our society. It provides us with opportunities for the future, but also challenges and it will require changes to the way in which we plan and deliver public services. The fact that older people ... the preparation of development plans, and that planning decisions should take into account how they will affect people across different stages of the life course of future generations. Comments We would
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only able to eat liquid food. He required numerous dental appointments to get to the stage where he will be able to have dentures fitted. He told us he feels let down by the same system that was happy for ... clear that even with delays in access, people feel that not having to worry about how much treatment will cost is a major benefit of living in the UK that does have public health care, despite capacity issues
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potential confusion in presenting an array of accounts and interest rates to the customer and care will need to be taken to design the notifications (Internet and paper) so they can be easily understood ... comparison will need to be maintained. Regarding the Internet account aggregation approach, our principal question 7 would be security. It is not immediately apparent how live account aggregation will be reconciled
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by Housing Benefit or Universal Credit. If you are not able to pay your water charge element, you will be in rent arrears and your landlord can start eviction proceedings. If you do not claim any benefits ... a bowl rather than under running water. ⚫ Water your garden in the early morning or evening as it will not evaporate so quickly. ⚫ Water your garden thoroughly once a week rather than more frequently and
