Next month will see Ruth Marks step into the new shoes of older people's commissioner for Wales. And for someone about to take up what is believed to be the first role of its kind in the world, she seems remarkably sanguine.
There are more older people in Wales proportionally than in other parts of the UK - 22% of its population is over 60 - and the numbers are increasing.
Her role will include ensuring older people are involved in decisions that affect them ensuring services meet their needs challenging discrimination protecting and safeguarding and supporting older people when things go wrong.
"Legal powers allow me to check that an investigation has been done and recommendations followed through. After that I can undertake an investigation and ask for papers, meet people and take evidence and get to the bottom of something if it hadn't been got to by other agencies."
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SOURCE: communitycareUK
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