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ensuring mainstream public health services and campaigns are inclusive, as well as undertaking specific work on public health issues that primarily impact people in later life. • The Welsh Government must ensure ... long-term prescriptions to ensure that they do not experience side effects. • Local Health Boards should work with GPs to monitor uptake of health checks and screening programmes by different groups and take
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as they could take several days to clear and thereby leave someone out of pocket. • Pre-paid cards work in a similar way to mobile telephone top-up cards whereby the card can be topped up at Post Offices ... donating blood. • to avoid injury or illness. • travelling to and from work, but only where it’s not reasonably practicable to work from home. • visit a cemetery, burial ground or garden of remembrance
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Mental Capacity Act 2005”. In these instances the authority “must meet its duties in relation to working with [the] IMCA...as well as those in relation to [an independent professional advocate] under the ... home resident who has had to stop self-employed work due to illness or disablement. However, this is in the short-term where the intention is to take up work again in the future when the person is able –
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from actually drawing their pension • If someone has more than one pension fund, how the default will work across all their savings • A clear interaction with state benefits and the care system. A particular ... In addition, we wonder whether it would be possible to use moves to aggregate pension pots during working life (as recently proposed by the Government) in order to create an infrastructure that would allow
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should encourage the pooling and sharing of resources to help fill gaps in local transport provision, working together with the voluntary sector. Older people’s access to healthcare must be improved by better ... numbers of older people are able to remain active and mobile during later life. To this end ILC-UK is working with Age UK to try to set the agenda for a future age-friendly transport policy. Using data on transport
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across a whole range of common conditions associated with ageing. It will be invaluable to me in my work as national clinical director for older people and I am sure invaluable for many others. I would love ... been much worrying evidence showing that the care of frail older people is sometimes poor. In future work we plan to report on the medical treatments received by frail older people, including those in hospital
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are less likely to provide personal care. However, they are more likely to be combining care with work, childcare and other responsibilities (Carers UK, 2015), and therefore more likely to experience carer
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Policy Wales: Edition 10 Welsh Government May 2018 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead
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high, but the supply of new homes is lagging well behind demand. The Welsh Government has pledged to work in partnership to deliver an additional 20,000 affordable homes.1 The age of housing stock means that ... well behind demand.7 The Welsh Government’s Programme for Government (2016-2021) included a pledge to work in partnership to deliver an additional 20,000 affordable homes.8
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who have only occasional contact with the person. Some people, including local authority staff who work in areas other than social services, may have insufficient knowledge of the specific systems and processes
