Information guides and factsheets
Information guides and factsheets
Our information guides are short and easy to digest and provide an overview of the relevant topic. Our factsheets provide more in-depth information.
Below you can find links to all of our resources in numerical order - firstly our information guides, followed by the full range of factsheets.
Coronavirus
For the latest information on Coronavirus please visit:
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/cymru/information-advice/coronavirus/
- Age Cymru Advice: How can we help? (PDF, 59 KB)
- Cyngor Age Cymru: Sut allwn ni helpu? (PDF, 59 KB)
- IG01: Staying safe (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG02: LGBT+: Navigating later life (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG03: When someone dies (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG05: Avoiding scams (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG06: Care homes (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG07: Your hospital stay (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG08: Housing options (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG10: Useful contacts - information and advice directory (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG13: Advice for carers (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG14: Staying steady (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG15: Bladder and bowel problems (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG17: Adapting your home (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG21: Powers of attorney (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG23: Getting help at home (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG24: Healthy living – looking after yourself physically and mentally (PDF, 8 MB)
- IG30: Save energy, pay less (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG31: Wills and estate planning (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG32: Bereavement (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG44: In the driving seat (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG45: Looking after your money (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG47: Caring for someone with dementia (PDF, 7 MB)
- IG48: Living with early-stage dementia (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG49: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 968 KB)
- IG50: Pension Credit (PDF, 706 KB)
- IG51: Thinking about end of life (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG52: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 1 MB)
- L53w: More money in your pocket: How to claim the right benefits in later life (PDF, 1 MB)
- L53w: Mwy o arian yn eich poced (PDF, 91 KB)
- IG53: State Pension (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG54: Council Tax Support (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG55: At home with dementia: Tips for making your home dementia friendly (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG56: Your mind matters (PDF, 3 MB)
- L57w: Winter wrapped up
- IG57: Getting help with debt (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG58: Universal Credit (PDF, 1 MB)
- IL1: Staying cool in a heatwave (PDF, 251 KB)
- IL6: Equity release (PDF, 2 MB)
- IL8: How to be an executor (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 1w: Help with heating costs in Wales (PDF, 868 KB)
- Factsheet 2: Buying retirement housing (PDF, 388 KB)
- Factsheet 5w: Dental care - NHS and private treatment in Wales (PDF, 730 KB)
- Factsheet 6w: Finding help at home (PDF, 896 KB)
- Factsheet 7: Making a will (PDF, 282 KB)
- Factsheet 8: Council and housing association housing (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 9: Anti-social behaviour in housing (PDF, 347 KB)
- Factsheet 10w: Paying for a permanent care home placement in Wales (PDF, 978 KB)
- Factsheet 12: Planning your retirement - money and tax (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 14: Dealing with an estate (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 16: Transgender issues and later life (PDF, 526 KB)
- Factsheet 17: Housing Benefit (PDF, 324 KB)
- Factsheet 19: State Pension (PDF, 321 KB)
- Factsheet 20w: NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care in Wales (PDF, 698 KB)
- Factsheet 21w: Council Tax in Wales – information about the tax and help you might get towards your bill (PDF, 882 KB)
- Factsheet 22: Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf (PDF, 337 KB)
- Factsheet 24w: Direct payments for social care services in Wales (PDF, 983 KB)
- Factsheet 25: Returning from abroad (PDF, 405 KB)
- Factsheet 27: Planning for your funeral (PDF, 320 KB)
- Factsheet 29w: Finding care home accommodation in Wales (PDF, 984 KB)
- Factsheet 34: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 35: Tenancy rights - rent (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 37w: Hospital discharge arrangements for older people in Wales (PDF, 730 KB)
- Factsheet 38w: Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision in Wales (PDF, 887 KB)
- Factsheet 39w: Paying for a care home in Wales if you have a partner (PDF, 802 KB)
- Factsheet 40w: Deprivation of assets in the means test for care home provision in Wales (PDF, 793 KB)
- Factsheet 41w: Social care assessments for older people with care needs in Wales (PDF, 956 KB)
- Factsheet 42w: Obtaining disability equipment and home adaptations in Wales (PDF, 652 KB)
- Factsheet 43: Getting legal and financial advice (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 44w: Information on NHS services for older people in Wales (PDF, 624 KB)
- Factsheet 46w: Paying for care and support at home in Wales (PDF, 904 KB)
- Factsheet 48: Pension Credit (PDF, 346 KB)
- Factsheet 49: Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision (PDF, 974 KB)
- Factsheet 55: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 923 KB)
- Factsheet 56: Benefits for people under Pension Credit age (PDF, 327 KB)
- Factsheet 58w: Paying for temporary care in a care home in Wales (PDF, 748 KB)
- Factsheet 59w: How to resolve problems and make a complaint about social care in Wales (PDF, 398 KB)
- Factsheet 60w: Choice of care home if the local authority is contributing towards your care fees (PDF, 835 KB)
- Factsheet 61w: Help with NHS health costs in Wales (PDF, 846 KB)
- Factsheet 62: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (PDF, 361 KB)
- Factsheet 63: Finding private rented accommodation (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 64: Specialist housing for older people (PDF, 309 KB)
- Factsheet 65: Equity release (PDF, 214 KB)
- Factsheet 66w: Resolving problems and making a complaint about NHS care in Wales (PDF, 325 KB)
- Factsheet 67: Home improvements and repairs (PDF, 335 KB)
- Factsheet 68: Preventing evictions (PDF, 346 KB)
- Factsheet 69: Water advice (PDF, 655 KB)
- Factsheet 71: Park homes (PDF, 294 KB)
- Factsheet 72: Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills (PDF, 265 KB)
- Factsheet 74: Challenging welfare benefit decisions (PDF, 894 KB)
- Factsheet 75: Dealing with debt (PDF, 401 KB)
- Factsheet 76w: Reablement, intermediate care and preventative services in Wales (PDF, 541 KB)
- Factsheet 78w: Safeguarding older people in Wales from abuse and neglect (PDF, 475 KB)
- Factsheet 79: Equality, discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PDF, 949 KB)
- Factsheet 82: Getting the best energy deal (PDF, 420 KB)
- Factsheet 87: Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance (PDF, 327 KB)
- Factsheet 89w: Dealing with homelessness in Wales (PDF, 671 KB)
- Factsheet 91: Pension freedom and benefits (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 92: Universal Credit (PDF, 385 KB)