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Avoiding slips, trips and falls www.agecymru.org.uk Registered charity 1128436 The booklet concludes with advice on how to deal with the fear of falling and what to do if you have a fall. As we grow older ... gradual changes to our health and the medications we take can contribute to an increased risk of falling, but many falls can be prevented. Falls are often due to hazards that are easy to overlook but equally
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Page 1 of 22 Factsheet 79 Equality, discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty August 2024 About this factsheet The Equality Act 2010 (‘the Act’) came into force on 1 October 2010. It combined ... scope of discrimination law to cover: Age, Disability, Gender Reassignment, Marriage and Civil Partnership, Pregnancy and Maternity, Race, Religion or Belief, and Sex, and Sexual Orientation. This factsheet
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Partnerships Manager Job Purpose To provide practical and administrative support and event planning to Age Cymru and Age Alliance Wales. Main Duties and Responsibilities 1. To provide administrative support ... Age Alliance Wales and other associated projects. 2. To provide practical and administrative support for external meetings including preparing necessary papers and minute taking. 3. To provide practical
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called Tell Me More to find out how care home residents have been during the difficult period of the pandemic. Residents from all-across Wales were asked over Zoom about their experience and have taken their ... their time to share stories with us. The stories and insights we heard were often uplifting, sometimes sad but always full of inspiration and hope. The conversations were highly valued by us and the care
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A national arts in care homes participatory and mentoring programme Evaluation Report 2015-2017 Creating artists in residents A DSDC Wales Evaluation on behalf of Age Cymru I haven’t had such a delightful ... delightful time since my wedding night. Published October 2017 Full report available to download at www.agecymru.org.uk/cARTrefu/ To reference this report: Algar-Skaife, K., Caulfield, M. & Woods, B. (2017) cARTrefu:
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NO Refer to the IPA service. NO Creating an age friendly Wales Decision making process for determining need for Independent Professional Advocacy (IPA) for adults under the Social Services and Well-being ... (Wales) Act 2014 No requirement for local authorities and health boards to arrange provision of IPA under the SSWb Act, but consider other forms of support and advocacy. Is the person eligible for IMCA? In partnership
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project between Age UK and YouthNet to develop an intergeneration model that uses young volunteers to help older people develop their knowledge and understanding of what is and how to use technology, in particular ... particular computers and the internet. Age UK and YouthNet were chosen as the Virgin London Marathon Charity of the Year 2013 on the basis of this project. The project has run in two pilot areas and this document
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developing policy and practice. Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. We are a national charity and social enterprise working to transform later life in the UK and overseas. Our ... world in which older people flourish. We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, products, training, research and campaigning. Name: Gemma Bradshaw Email: gemma
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LATER LIFE Improving quality of prevention and treatment through information: England 2005 to 2012 MAY 2012 A report from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Ageing Research Group for Age UK ... UK Authors: David Melzer, Behrooz Tavakoly, Rachel Winder, Suzanne Richards, Christian Gericke and Iain Lang © 2012 PCMD Ageing Research Group, University of Exeter. All rights reserved. © 2012 PCMD
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LATER LIFE Improving quality of prevention and treatment through information: England 2005 to 2012 MAY 2012 A report from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Ageing Research Group for Age UK ... UK Authors: David Melzer, Behrooz Tavakoly, Rachel Winder, Suzanne Richards, Christian Gericke and Iain Lang © 2012 PCMD Ageing Research Group, University of Exeter. All rights reserved. © 2012 PCMD
