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Check your own home for fire safety – DVD
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service
We want you, your family, friends and neighbours to be safe from fire in your home, to help you do this we have a short video which will highlight the risks in your home room by room and give you some advice on how to make it safer.
If you are over 60 or have a disability which could make it more difficult to react to a fire please contact us to see if you are eligible for a free home fire risk check of your home.
We also have a Home Fire Risk Self Checker which you can print out or follow on line, this helps you walk around your home identify potential risks and tells you what you can do about them.
Welsh-speaking carers supported
A NEW strategy which aims to improve
Welsh language services for carers and their families has been launched today.
Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas and Health Minister Lesley Griffiths launched the scheme which aims to improve the quality of people’s experience of Welsh language care among front line service.
Mrs Griffiths said: “We want to make sure users and their families feel that they are able to use Welsh when being assessed and receiving treatment or care.
Cold, lonely winter may cost 25,000 old people their lives
“Small things and a friendly face make all the difference to a family carer.”
Older people in the West Country are becoming increasingly isolated as neighbours fail to take notice of their basic needs.
According to a new report from the charity Age UK, one in four people aged 65 or more in the South West are not getting any help, support or companionship from people on their doorstep.
“It is a sad fact of life,” said Tom Williams, chairman of a Pensioners and 50-Plus Action Group in the region. “Times have changed and this has been happening more and more over the years. People are busy with their own lives and they don’t pop into each others houses any more.
He added: “We all know individuals who have children who live abroad, in America and Australia, and the chances are they aren’t coming back. These people are all right when they are living as a couple, but when one dies the survivor tends to get very lonely. It’s a real problem, but it’s hard to know what to do.”
Mr Williams, who is a keen advocate of over-50s getting more involved in their community, said older people were sometimes guilty of apathy themselves.
“It goes both ways. Older people need to get out more and be more vocal as well.”
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