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million people in 2015–16, and our Advice Service team dealt with around 260,000 enquiries. Years of working with and listening to older people in different circumstances has given us a wealth of knowledge ... Cognitive skills – ageing often affects a range of cognitive skills, including processing speed, working memory and long-term memory,9 as well as people’s ability to recall the right words in conversation
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hospital for non-emergency medical treatment. We also propose a series of ideas for how the system could work better. The issues we raise and the ideas we propose are based on: focus group discussions with ... is no public transport to any of the hospitals. My family can help occasionally but they are all working. My husband can drive but he has had two cataract operations this year and this was a problem.
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unless there was some sort of prior knowledge to what they would be expecting from me.” We believe that work is needed to increase knowledge and raise awareness of the rights of older people across Wales. Until ... unlawful for a ‘public authority to act in a way that is incompatible with a Convention right’. When working under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 or the Mental Capacity Act 2005, local
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guidance documents are backed by law and aim to assist individuals, professionals and organisations to work within and comply with the Act – i.e. they are written in more straightforward English and are, therefore ... advocacy services (within each local authority area) on our website at: www.ageuk.org.uk/cymru/our-work/advocacy/hope---helping-othersparticipate-and-engage/advocacy-services-in-wales The Public Services
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conducting a financial assessment of someone who needs to go into a care home – and subsequently working out what charge a service user should pay – all local authorities in Wales will need to comply with ... continue, but you may be reassessed for PIP in the future (you’ll get a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions telling you when this will happen and how you can apply for PIP instead). Factsheet 58w
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Virtual engagement can be challenging and a little bumpy to start, but it’s also instant and can work brilliantly, as well as being very quick and flexible. Residents have told us that they like to be ... little things... Treasured memories... Was a good question to ask! She told me she is 95 and used to work in a brewery, she says she thinks that’s why she’s lived so long!’ Emma, facilitator for Tell Me
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different households in order to reach an acceptable standard of living, as seen in the extensive work by Joseph Rowntree Foundation.iv Self-reported measures - people are asked how well off they consider ... which documents the daily struggles of coping on a low income. Our report found that participants worked incredibly hard to manage financially. They kept a close eye on their budget and managed their resources
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research 16 8.3 Donating tissue for medical research 17 Useful organisations 18 Age UK 20 Support our work 20 Appendix 1: Useful information for nearest relative or friend 22 Age UK factsheet 27 February ... funeral costs, family members may be able to get a funeral expenses payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), if they meet certain conditions. To qualify, the deceased must have been ordinarily
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you support the work set out in the draft flood risk management plan to reduce flood risk? We welcome the intention, set out in FRMPs, for the various Flood Management Authorities to ‘work in partnership
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the NHS as a whole, not just those responsible for specialist palliative care. All professionals working in the NHS will care for people who are dying, yet training in end of life care remains poor. Geriatricians ... the use of the word “frailty”, a word increasingly used in government and wider health policy. In work we have recently completed on health professional perceptions of frailty (not yet published) there
