English: Older people in Wales are everyday heroes, making huge contributions through work, activism, volunteering and community work, and caring for families and providing childcare, that are often overlooked by society. They deserve dignity and respect, independence and the freedom to make decisions about their own lives. In last week's report from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, 'Talking Future Generations', quotes from her stakeholder events in north Wales include, 'The people making the decisions need to walk the same path as the people on the ground.' Cartrefi Conwy was formed when Conwy tenants voted to transfer their council housing stock. As Cartrefi Conwy stated from the outset, their challenge was not only to bring all properties up to the Welsh housing quality standard by 2012, but also 'to create communities to be proud of.' This summer I visited their focus on photography group with their independent living manager and their older persons engagement co-ordinator to learn first-hand from the older person group members about both the project and how it had contributed to their own independence and well-being. I was also a guest, alongside Janet Finch-Saunders, at Cartrefi Conwy's Older Persons Day on 30 September this year, celebrating their older tenants and the contributions they make to the communities in which they live, and publicising the services available to their older people in order to promote independent living - empowering and enabling them to take control of their lives, not letting their age or anything else affect their independence or quality of life. If they have not already done so, I urge those local authorities that retained their housing stock to embrace a similar approach. Our 2016 manifesto stated that a Welsh Conservative Government would implement a £400 weekly cap on residential care, and protect £100,000 of assets for those in residential care. The Welsh Government's failure to do the same is regrettable. As a constituent asked me, 'Is it fair that some people have to effectively sell their homes to pay for their residential care costs?' The Older People's Commissioner for Wales's 'Dementia: more than just memory loss' report found that there is still a lack of knowledge and understanding of dementia, that dementia services often lack the flexibility to effectively meet the needs of people living with dementia and their carers, that a lack of co-operation between services creates unnecessary difficulties and barriers for people living with dementia and their carers, and that there are still significant variations across Wales in the quality of services available. The Alzheimer's Society are calling for the proposed Welsh Government dementia strategy to set out clear targets for increased dementia diagnosis rates, currently the lowest in any UK nation, to ensure support from a dementia support worker, to ensure dementia awareness training in all clinical and care settings, and much more. I encourage people to attend the north Wales consultation events at Bangor University on 18 November and 12 December. Age Cymru are calling for an urgent improvement in services and support around dementia, including community settings, the extension of dementia training schemes, and integrated, person-centred NHS and social care services at point of delivery. The Older People's Commissioner for Wales has warned that there is an increasing problem of older people being specifically targeted by criminals due to their supposed vulnerabilities. Despite this, there remains a gap in the law that does not recognise these crimes committed against older people, because of their age, as hate crimes. I welcome the Institute of Fundraising ruling that fundraisers must not knock on doors with 'no cold calling' stickers. I commend Flintshire and Wrexham Online Watch Link Association's no-cold-calling zones watch schemes, which are about supporting the people who live in them to keep safe and improve their quality of life, rather than simply putting up a street sign and providing window stickers. As Age Cymru states, negative attitudes towards older people and ageing are pervasive in our society, based on inaccurate stereotypes and assumptions about a person's ability and competence due to their age. They add that the Welsh Government should further explore what role the introduction of a bill of rights for older people could play in lobbying at UK and international levels and more broadly for greater legal protection for older people. I therefore commend the call in our motion for the introduction of an older people's rights Bill to extend and promote the rights of older people, and for a duty on public sector bodies to consult older people when making decisions that affect their lives and to design and deliver services with them, rather than simply give them to them. Thank you.
Welsh: Mae pobl hŷn yng Nghymru yn arwyr pob dydd, ac yn cyfrannu'n enfawr drwy waith, actifiaeth, gwirfoddoli a gwaith cymunedol, a gofalu am deuluoedd a darparu gofal plant, cyfraniad sy'n aml yn cael ei anwybyddu gan gymdeithas. Maent yn haeddu urddas a pharch, annibyniaeth a rhyddid i wneud penderfyniadau ynglŷn â'u bywydau eu hunain. Yn yr adroddiad yr wythnos diwethaf gan Gomisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol Cymru, 'Siarad Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol', mae dyfyniadau o'i digwyddiadau i randdeiliaid yng ngogledd Cymru yn cynnwys, 'Mae angen i'r bobl sy'n gwneud y penderfyniadau gerdded ar hyd yr un llwybr â'r bobl ar y lefel sylfaenol.' Ffurfiwyd Cartrefi Conwy pan bleidleisiodd tenantiaid Conwy o blaid trosglwyddo eu stoc tai cyngor. Fel y nododd Cartrefi Conwy o'r cychwyn, eu her oedd codi safon pob eiddo i safon ansawdd tai Cymru erbyn 2012, a hefyd i greu cymunedau i fod yn falch ohonynt. Yr haf hwn ymwelais â'u grŵp ffocws ar ffotograffiaeth gyda'u rheolwr byw'n annibynnol a'u cydlynydd ymgysylltu pobl hŷn i ddysgu o lygad y ffynnon gan aelodau'r grŵp pobl hŷn am y prosiect a sut roedd wedi cyfrannu at eu hannibyniaeth a'u lles. Roeddwn hefyd yn westai, gyda Janet Finch-Saunders, yn Niwrnod Pobl Hŷn Cartrefi Conwy ar 30 Medi eleni, yn dathlu eu tenantiaid hŷn a'r cyfraniadau a wnânt i'r cymunedau lle y maent yn byw, a rhoi cyhoeddusrwydd i'r gwasanaethau sydd ar gael i'w pobl hŷn er mwyn hyrwyddo byw'n annibynnol - gan eu grymuso a'u galluogi i gymryd rheolaeth ar eu bywydau, peidio â gadael i'w hoedran neu unrhyw beth arall i effeithio ar eu hannibyniaeth neu ansawdd eu bywydau. Os nad ydynt wedi gwneud hynny eisoes, rwy'n annog yr awdurdodau lleol sy'n cadw eu stoc dai i fabwysiadu ymagwedd debyg. Nododd ein maniffesto ar gyfer 2016 y byddai Llywodraeth Geidwadol Cymru yn gweithredu cap wythnosol o £400 ar ofal preswyl, a diogelu £100,000 o asedau i'r rhai mewn gofal preswyl. Mae methiant Llywodraeth Cymru i wneud yr un peth yn destun gofid. Fel y gofynnodd etholwr i mi, 'A yw'n deg bod yn rhaid i rai pobl werthu eu cartrefi i bob pwrpas i dalu am eu costau gofal preswyl?' Gwelodd Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru, yn yr adroddiad 'Dementia: mwy na dim ond colli'r cof' fod yna ddiffyg gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth o ddementia o hyd, fod gwasanaethau dementia yn aml heb hyblygrwydd i ddiwallu anghenion pobl sy'n byw gyda dementia a'u gofalwyr yn effeithiol, fod diffyg cydweithredu rhwng gwasanaethau yn creu anawsterau a rhwystrau diangen i bobl sy'n byw gyda dementia a'u gofalwyr, a bod amrywiadau sylweddol ar draws Cymru o hyd o ran ansawdd y gwasanaethau sydd ar gael. Mae'r Gymdeithas Alzheimer yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i osod targedau clir yn ei strategaeth arfaethedig ar ddementia ar gyfer cynyddu cyfraddau diagnosis o ddementia, sydd ar hyn o bryd yn is nag unrhyw wlad arall yn y DU, er mwyn sicrhau cefnogaeth gan weithiwr cymorth dementia, i sicrhau bod hyfforddiant ymwybyddiaeth dementia ym mhob lleoliad clinigol a lleoliad gofal, a llawer mwy. Rwy'n annog pobl i fynychu digwyddiadau ymgynghori gogledd Cymru ym Mhrifysgol Bangor ar 18 Tachwedd a 12 Rhagfyr. Mae Age Cymru yn galw am wella gwasanaethau a chymorth dementia ar frys, gan gynnwys lleoliadau cymunedol, ymestyn cynlluniau hyfforddiant dementia, a gwasanaethau GIG a gofal cymdeithasol integredig sy'n canolbwyntio ar yr unigolyn yn y man darparu. Mae Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru wedi rhybuddio bod yna broblem gynyddol wrth i bobl hŷn gael eu targedu'n benodol gan droseddwyr oherwydd y rhagdybiaeth eu bod yn fregus. Er gwaethaf hyn, mae yna fwlch yn y gyfraith o hyd nad yw'n cydnabod bod y troseddau hyn a gyflawnir yn erbyn pobl hŷn oherwydd eu hoed yn droseddau casineb. Rwy'n croesawu dyfarniad y Sefydliad Codi Arian na ddylai pobl sy'n codi arian guro ar ddrysau gyda sticeri 'dim galw diwahoddiad'. Cymeradwyaf gynlluniau parthau gwarchod dim galw diwahoddiad Cymdeithas Gwarchod Ar-lein Sir y Fflint a Wrecsam, sy'n mynd ati i gynorthwyo'r bobl sy'n byw ynddynt i gadw'n ddiogel a gwella ansawdd eu bywydau, yn hytrach na dim ond gosod arwydd stryd a darparu sticeri ffenestri. Fel y dywed Age Cymru, mae agweddau negyddol tuag at bobl hŷn a heneiddio yn hollbresennol yn ein cymdeithas, yn seiliedig ar stereoteipiau a rhagdybiaethau anghywir am allu a chymhwysedd pobl oherwydd eu hoedran. Maent yn ychwanegu y dylai Llywodraeth Cymru archwilio ymhellach pa rôl y gallai cyflwyno bil o hawliau ar gyfer pobl hŷn ei chwarae wrth lobïo ar lefel y DU ac yn rhyngwladol ac yn fwy cyffredinol am ragor o ddiogelwch cyfreithiol i bobl hŷn. Felly, cymeradwyaf yr alwad yn ein cynnig y dylid cyflwyno Deddf hawliau pobl hŷn i ymestyn a hyrwyddo hawliau pobl hŷn, a gosod dyletswydd ar gyrff sector cyhoeddus i ymgynghori â phobl hŷn wrth wneud penderfyniadau sy'n effeithio ar eu bywydau ac i lunio a chyflwyno gwasanaethau gyda hwy, yn hytrach na dim ond eu rhoi iddynt. Diolch.