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Conclusion 7 2. Introduction 9 Methodology 9 3. GTAP progress to date 11 1. To develop a National Framework for Commissioning IPA 11 2. To support and build the capacity of the advocacy sector in Wales ... Voices Heard: Older People’s Access to Independent Advocacy in Wales (May 2018) 14 Making older people’s rights a reality will make Wales the best place in the world to grow old 15 Quality Performance Mark
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be unlawful for service providers to discriminate on the basis of age unless the practice is covered by an exception from the ban, constitutes positive action designed to address disadvantage experienced ... applicable in England and Wales. It aims to prevent discrimination, harassment and victimisation defined as follows: Direct discrimination will be deemed to have occurred where an older person is treated
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demographic this guideline will act to support so their needs are highly relevant to this work. As part of the development process, stakeholders have been invited to comment on the drafts (available online ... right of older people to make and be included in decisions about their own care and medication. Highlighting the need for professionals and practitioners to support older people to self-care and retain
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online to this consultation at www.bis.gov.uk/pomutualisation or email responses to postoffice.mutualisation@bis.gsi.gov.uk The Department may, in accordance with the Code of Practice on Access to Government ... applicable): Age UK Address: 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NB Please return completed forms to: Post Office Mutualisation Consultation Shareholder Executive Department of Business, Innovation and
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conversation at a time A call to action Over the past year we have been proud to chair the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, which Jo set up before her death in summer 2016, to shine a powerful spotlight on ... on the millions of people who are lonely living in our communities. The Commission was a response to Jo’s own experience - of finding herself a fish out of water at university and experiencing deep loneliness
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necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, Age UK or the Department of Health. The team hold a licence to analyse CPRD data and this work was carried out under approved protocol 12_017A4 (June 2015). Acknowledgements ... Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for the South West Peninsula supported this project to obtain access to the CPRD database. ii Contents Introduction ..........................................
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all have the right to live free from abuse of any kind. Our age or circumstances should have no bearing or effect on this basic right.1 Age does not diminish an individual’s right to live with dignity and ... an Ageing Society Strategy to implement a national plan to prevent abuse of older people.3 Legislation is an essential component of safeguarding adults; it has the capacity to set statutory duties and powers
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Post Office comes to an end in 2018 and so this consultation will be important in determining support for the network in the future and also for ensuring that the government is able to comply with any EU ... Our vision is for a world where everyone can love later life. Age UK provides information and advice to over 5 million people each year, runs public and parliamentary campaigns, provides training, and funds
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Rural Community Council Mervyn Kohler, Age UK Dr Kellie Payne, Learning and Research Manager, Campaign to End Loneliness Philip Talbot, Chief Executive, Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire Dr John Miles ... Foundation Trust Rural communities The meeting heard how distance, costs and connectivity all combine to create additional challenges. Geography was highlighted as a particularly important factor and there
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Option 1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Caerphilly In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services ... act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA (Independent Mental Health
