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Scotland or Northern Ireland, please contact Age Scotland or Age NI for advice. Contact details are at the back of this factsheet. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2024 ... When you are ill, you usually discuss treatment options and their pros and cons with the doctor, to help you reach a decision. If you have mental capacity to make such a decision, a doctor must have your
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life examples of the situations that face some people in retirement, the report paints a picture of stark compromises and tough choices. Some people really do face a choice between heating and eating during
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Domestic abuse is defined by the Home Office as “Incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse... by someone who is or has been an intimate
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development will assist in 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 ... only be delivered when services have sufficient resources to deliver support in the right place and at the right time for bereaved people. 2. How can the provision of and access to bereavement services
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Consultation Response Reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect: Home Office and Department for Education October, 2016 Ref 3016 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce ... possible changes should extend to vulnerable adults. Key points and recommendations Older people are at particular risk of experiencing abuse and neglect. New laws have created legal frameworks to enable
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project that’s ready to support older people (50+) and carers all over Wales. The HOPE project (Helping others to participate and engage) was officially launched on 6 October 2020 with the support of ... raise awareness of advocacy, and develop skills and knowledge. HOPE will deliver advocacy support at a community level through a range of advocacy models by recruiting and then fully training and supporting
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online here) and make recommendations. Age UK has responded and welcomes this guideline as a means of helping older people in a community social care setting get the best possible outcomes from their medication-based ... Reiterating the effects of inappropriate polypharmacy on older people and emphasising the role home care workers can have in reporting this to their family and prescribers. Stressing that covert
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travel abroad for between 4 and 13 weeks. There will be some transitional arrangements for those away at the time the changes come in. Key points and recommendations Age UK is disappointed that the Government ... people go abroad for longer than the period allowed, as well as the financial loss, they will have to face the additional effort of having to re-establish entitlement on their return. This will also increase
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by YouGov commissioned by Age UK in 2017 found that 36% of over 50s felt they had been disadvantaged at work because of their age. We deem that everyone should be able to remain in work as long as they desire ... rated it as good or excellent. Clearly, older people feel that their views are not being sought in helping to shape the communities in which they live. National Indicator 29 Mean mental well-being score
