Information and advice for older people from Age UK

Falls Awareness Week

This week there are free events explaining the simple things you can do to stay steady on your feet.

Personal alarms

At the press of a button, a personal alarm gives you the reassurance that help is available.

Boost your low mood

By chatting to a professional you can boost your low mood.

How pensions are changing

As the new Pensions Bill reaches Parliament for its second reading, we look at what it means for you

In Money matters

Power of Attorney

A Power of Attorney allows someone to make decisions on your behalf, should there come a time when you lack mental capacity to do so yourself.

Read our guide

In Get Involved

Donate your unwanted clothes

Clothes that have been donated to Age UK.

Don't throw your unwanted clothes away - donate them to Age UK, and help vulnerable older people.

Donate your items to an Age UK shop

In Health & wellbeing

Should I be eating that?

With so much conflicting advice in the media about what we should and shouldn't be eating, it's difficult not to be confused.

Health eating - separating fact and fiction

In Products

Travel insurance with a difference

Single trip and Annual Multi-trip insurance with no upper age limit and cover for pre-existing medical conditions where possible.

Get a travel insurance quote

On the Age UK blog

Making the Work Programme work

The Government's flagship back-to-work scheme has had some teething problems, especially for over-55s.

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News and updates

Care watchdog to act on death rates

Source : Press Association

Posted on 17 June 2013 12:00 PM

An independent care regulator is trialling a new system that will flag up residential and nursing homes in England where death rates of older peopl...

250,000 hospitalised due to a fall every year

Source : Richard Brooks / Age UK

Posted on 14 June 2013 04:30 PM

Age UK has today revealed that 250,000 people aged 65+ in England are treated in hospital as the result of a fall every year. The figures have been...