AGE CONCERN SUNDERLAND
- BRADBURY CENTRE/GRANGE HOUSE, STOCKTON ROAD, RYHOPE
SR2 7AQ SUNDERLAND, TYNE AND WEAR
Phone: 0191-514 1131
Fax: 0191-567 0378
E-mail: Send messagewww.acsunderland.org.uk
Short profile:
As part of our Fit as a Fiddle campaign, Age Uk Sunderland offers a variety of health and fitness activities to encourage people 50 years and over to improve and maintain their general wellbeing enabling them to cope better with everyday life. Activities include: New Age Kurling and Bowls, Keep Fit, Yoga and Healthy Wellbeing courses. Age Uk Sunderland’s ActivAge Project is supported by the Kellett Fund via the Community Foundation. This support in invaluable in ensuring that older people in Sunderland have access and opportunities to participate in courses and activities to support and promote good physical and mental health and general well-being.
Detailed description:
We don't always need someone else to arrange social care support for us - this is known, quite simply, as self-directed support. We have put together some help and advice around relevant legislation‚ the requirements of local authorities‚ current limitations and practical guidance. As there is no new legislation on which the government’s ‘personalisation’ policy has been based, it is necessary to show its legal foundations in the development of direct payments legislation and related guidance, and to emphasise that existing rights to social care provision have not changed.
This includes your right to be able to make informed choices whilst receiving the necessary levels of safeguarding from risks. Self directed assessment and support planning require appropriate information, advice and ongoing support to enable you to experience the overall aim of greater choice and control over service provision and funding arrangements.
You should not feel pressed into taking on more responsibility than you feel is necessary with regard to the planning and funding of your care package and you should be assisted to make arrangements that best suit your capacity and aims.
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