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Advice Tag: Advice. Reviews and complaints in Wales If the person with dementia or their carer has a complaint relating to any part of the process, it is best to try to resolve it with the person they have contact with, such as the assessor or social worker. Read more
If the person with dementia or their carer has a complaint relating to any part of the process, it is best to try to resolve it with the person they have contact with, such as the assessor or social worker.
Advice Tag: Advice. Care and support plans in Wales Once an assessment has been carried out the next step is to organise the care and support. Read more
Advice Tag: Advice. Financial Assessment for care in Northern Ireland To help decide who will pay for care, the trust will carry out a financial assessment. The financial assessment rules for homecare is different to the assessment rules for residential care. Read more
Advice Tag: Advice. What is the care assessment process in Wales? If you need care and support in Wales, your local authority will need to carry out an assessment of your needs. Then they will carry out a financial assessment to decide who will pay for your care. If the local authority fund your care, you will receive a direct payment. Read more
Advice Tag: Advice. Services for people with young-onset dementia Services for all people with dementia should try to help them maintain their day-to-day skills and develop new interests if they wish to. This page provides information on age appropriate services for younger people and help with locating them. Read more
Information Tag: Information. Dementia-friendly personal budgets This page contains information about personal budgets and how we're working to make them more accessible for people affected by dementia. Read more
Information Tag: Information. Alzheimer's Society wants people affected by dementia to have choice and control over care and support From the August/September 2016 issue of our magazine, Ian McCreath, Personal Choice Programme Manager, talks about work to ensure that people living with dementia have greater choice and control over their care and support. Read more
Information Tag: Information. Know your rights Choice and control are a legal right. Find out what we're doing to inform people affected by dementia about their rights. Read more
Information Tag: Information. Personal Choice Programme Alzheimer’s Society personalisation programme is working to ensure people with dementia have choice and control over their own care and support. Read more
News Tag: News. Social workers reveal the extent of social care meltdown Nearly 7 in 10 are feeling the pinch of cost pressures in their local authority. Read more
News Tag: News. Man with Alzheimer's disease overcharged for utilities and services Gavin Terry, Policy Manager at Alzheimer’s Society responds. Read more
News Tag: News. Response to news on Personal Independent Payments (PIP) for people with dementia Joy Watson is one of our highly valued ambassadors, doing a huge amount to raise awareness both of dementia and Alzheimer’s Society. She has recently seen her benefits to be cut. Read more
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