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information and advice service to older people, their carers and families in Wales on a range of issues including: Ø Welfare benefits for older people including checking benefit entitlement Ø Health and social ... including housing options, repairs and adaptations and heating Ø Legal issues such as Wills and Power of Attorney Ø Bereavement and death Ø Local services and opportunities to engage in new activities Ø We
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RESPONSE 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 ... 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
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help to: • Ensure people listen to your views, wishes and feelings so you lead the decision making? • Get the right support you need when you need it? • Be supported to say what matters to you and why? ... Understand your options and choices? HOPE has trained independent Volunteer Advocates who will be: • Someone there for you and only you • Someone to listen to you and support you so you can make your own decisions
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). These relate to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions about their care and treatment, and who are deprived of their liberty in a care home or hospital ... means, the required procedure for authorisation, the procedures and protections required once someone has been deprived of their liberty, and what can be done if there are concerns about a deprivation of
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Golden Thread Advocacy Programme introduction page. Basic background and outline of work for the newly funded programme.
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oroverinWalesoftheCovid-19pandemicCreating anagefriendlyWalesThis survey is a follow up to the second survey we undertook in February to April2021 for people aged 50 or over acrossWales. It’s being undertaken by ... keyorganisationsthatrepresentolderpeople. It’s important that Welsh Government and others hear from older peopleabouttheirexperiencesoftheCovid-19 pandemic and the impact this has had on them. Our previous two surveys focused
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360 ° ManagerJob Purpose To develop and maintain effective partnerships to ensure the effective delivery of Project 360°, supporting services to veterans in Wales.Main Duties and ResponsibilitiesTo work ... organisations and Age Alliance Wales to improve the lives of older veterans living in Wales through the partner organisations.Deliver training to partner organisations regarding the armed forces community To develop
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lives. In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Welsh Government provided funding for Age Cymru to undertake research into the mental health of older adults in care homes in Wales. Our report produced ... health. The charity Mind defines good mental health as being able to think, feel and react in the ways that you want and need in order to live your life. Having poor mental health means finding that the
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factors found in USoc and how used in our model (or not) Wellbeing indicators from research lit Age UK Wellbeing Index Indicator More on how used or not, why Usoc variables used (Or how else used in the model) ... model) Engagement with arts and culture (not membership, but going to and frequency) Creative and cultural participation b_arts1freq, b_arts2freq, b_libfreq, b_arcfreq, b_musfreq, b_herfreq
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members who are willing to share their experiences and to contribute to Age Cymru’s policies. We are particularly interested to hear from people living in North Wales. Covid-19 led to an increase in demand ... demand for services and support from older people. Besides the risk of Covid-19, the restrictions imposed in response to the virus impacted on the well-being of many older people. Loneliness resulting from
