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confidential service. Age Cymru Advice can assist older people themselves, their family, friends, carers, or professionals. If the person you’re supporting is aged under 50, please ask them to call Citizens
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parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. ... About this consultation This consultation seeks views on consumers’ and businesses’ expectations for what the Post Office network should look like and how it should be operated. The current funding agreement
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activities, from stand-up to stitching, from Bollywood to book clubs. Gwanwyn Festival offers opportunities for older people to become involved in arts and creative activities, either as practitioners, organisers ... to recognize the benefits that being creative can bring to their health and well-being. The theme for May 2024 is ‘change’. We’ve been inspired by older people that have created cultural
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Planning for the end of your life is a very sensitive and personal experience. It’s important you do what feels right for you, when it feels right. But being well informed can help you feel more in ... as you feel comfortable with. And if you don't want to talk, that's OK too. Contact Dying Matters for leaflets on how to start conversations about dying, death and bereavement If you have been diagnosed
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1 Consultation Response Accessibility Action Plan consultation Department for Transport November 2017 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people ... seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Department for Transport’s Accessibility Action
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exploitation of a person’s characteristics, which excludes them from opportunities in society, for example, education, health, justice, civic status and protection. It includes discrimination on the ... person’s age, sex, sexuality, disability, religious beliefs or ethnic group Preventing the adult who needs care and support from having equal access to education, health, justice and access to appropriate
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people. Most of us have felt miserably and lonely at some point in our lives. For many, life moves on and the feelings pass. But for some loneliness becomes chronic, and it becomes increasingly difficult to ... of loneliness. 1.7% or 200,000 older people 65+ have not had a conversation with friends or family for a month.2 Many older people do not feel valued by their community 16.1% or 1.9 million older people
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people. In addition, the professor advised a number of national bodies including the National Assembly for Wales on the drafting of the Social Services and Well-being Act, and the Welsh Government’s Safeguarding ... Committee on the draft Mental Incapacity Bill, and between 2017 and 2020 was a member of the Commissioner for Older People Northern Ireland’s statutory review of Dunmurry Care Home and its treatment of older
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English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) survey to obtain predictors of loneliness and to test for the presence of spatial neighbouring effects (i.e. spatial dependence). The results are applied to ... of survey data (either cross-sectional or longitudinal) tend not to be big enough to obtain results for small geographical units with acceptable statistical power. On the other hand, census data do not record
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Independent advocacy is a vital service for individuals to ensure that the person (and their well-being outcomes) is placed at the centre of the work of support services. Independent advocacy gives citizens ... and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 places a requirement on local authorities to make advocacy available for all individuals in Wales in certain circumstances including (but not exclusively) assessment, care
