Age UK information guides and factsheets
Our information guides are short and easy to digest, giving an overview of the relevant topic. If you're looking for more in-depth information on a certain topic, our factsheets are longer and more detailed.
Information guides
On this page, we've categorised all of our information guides into the following sections:
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Money and legal
- AgeUKIG02: LGBT+ (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG03: When someone dies (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG05: Avoiding scams (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG21: Power of attorney (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG30: Save energy, pay less (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG31: Wills and estate planning (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG43: More money in your pocket (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG45: Looking after your money (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG49: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG50: Pension Credit (PDF, 1023 KB)
- AgeUKIG51: Thinking about end of life (PDF, 4 MB)
- AgeUKIG52: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG53: State Pension (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG54: Council Tax Support (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG57: Getting help with debt (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG58: Universal Credit (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIL6: Equity release (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIL8: How to be an executor (PDF, 2 MB)
Health and wellbeing
- AgeUKIG07: Your hospital stay (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG14: Staying steady (PDF, 4 MB)
- AgeUKIG15: Bladder and bowel problems (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG24: Healthy living (PDF, 4 MB)
- AgeUKIG27: Winter wrapped up (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG32: Bereavement (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG47: Caring for someone with dementia (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG48: Living with dementia (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG55: At home with dementia (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG56: Your mind matters (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIL1: Staying cool in a heatwave (PDF, 227 KB)
Home and care
- AgeUK01: Staying safe (PDF, 5 MB)
- AgeUKIG06: Care homes (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIL5: Care home checklist (PDF, 321 KB)
- AgeUKIG08: Housing options (PDF, 2 MB)
- AgeUKIG60: Social housing (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG61: Private renters (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG62: Homelessness (PDF, 722 KB)
- AgeUKIG63: Homeowners (PDF, 1 MB)
- AgeUKIG13: Advice for carers (PDF, 3 MB)
- AgeUKIG17: Adapting your home (PDF, 4 MB)
- AgeUKIG23: Getting help at home (PDF, 3 MB)
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Factsheets
On this page, we've categorised all of our factsheets into the following sections:
Income and benefits factsheets
Our factsheet index shows our full list of factsheets and is updated regularly with the most recent publication dates.
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Health
- FS5: Dental care – NHS and private treatment (PDF, 281 KB)
- FS16: Trans issues and later life (PDF, 626 KB)
- FS20: NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care (PDF, 630 KB)
- FS37: Hospital discharge (PDF, 441 KB)
- FS44: NHS services (PDF, 521 KB)
- FS66: Resolving problems and making a complaint about NHS care (PDF, 329 KB)
- FS76: Intermediate care and reablement (PDF, 325 KB)
Housing
- FS1: Help with heating costs (PDF, 333 KB)
- FS2: Buying retirement housing (PDF, 337 KB)
- FS8: Council and housing association housing (PDF, 527 KB)
- FS9: Anti-social behaviour in housing (PDF, 373 KB)
- FS35: Tenancy rights – rent (PDF, 412 KB)
- FS63: Finding private rented accommodation (PDF, 428 KB)
- FS64: Specialist housing for older people (PDF, 331 KB)
- FS65: Equity release (PDF, 317 KB)
- FS67: Home improvements and repairs (PDF, 395 KB)
- FS68: Preventing evictions (PDF, 620 KB)
- FS71: Park homes (PDF, 359 KB)
- FS89: Homelessness (PDF, 837 KB)
Income and benefits
- FS12: Planning for your retirement: money and tax (PDF, 409 KB)
- FS17: Housing Benefit (PDF, 419 KB)
- FS19: State Pension (PDF, 399 KB)
- FS21: Council Tax (PDF, 444 KB)
- FS34: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 531 KB)
- FS48: Pension Credit (PDF, 353 KB)
- FS49: Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision (PDF, 380 KB)
- FS55: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 430 KB)
- FS56: Benefits for people under State Pension age (PDF, 332 KB)
- FS61: Help with health costs (PDF, 317 KB)
- FS74: Challenging welfare benefit decisions (PDF, 371 KB)
- FS75: Dealing with debt (PDF, 522 KB)
- FS87: Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance (PDF, 326 KB)
- FS91: Pension Freedom and benefits (PDF, 483 KB)
- FS92: Universal Credit (PDF, 493 KB)
Legal
- FS7: Making a will (PDF, 376 KB)
- FS14: Dealing with an estate (PDF, 596 KB)
- FS22: Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf (PDF, 429 KB)
- FS25: Returning from abroad (PDF, 358 KB)
- FS43: Getting legal and financial advice (PDF, 557 KB)
- FS62: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (PDF, 431 KB)
- FS72: Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills (PDF, 269 KB)
- FS78: Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect (PDF, 432 KB)
- FS79: Equality, discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PDF, 481 KB)
Social care
- FS6: Finding help at home (PDF, 351 KB)
- FS10: Paying for permanent residential care (PDF, 331 KB)
- FS24: Personal budgets and direct payments in social care (PDF, 352 KB)
- FS29: Finding, choosing and funding a care home (PDF, 623 KB)
- FS38: Property and paying for residential care (PDF, 681 KB)
- FS39: Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner (PDF, 292 KB)
- FS40: Deprivation of assets in social care (PDF, 276 KB)
- FS41: How to get care and support (PDF, 442 KB)
- FS42: Disability equipment and home adaptations (PDF, 414 KB)
- FS46: Paying for care and support at home (PDF, 547 KB)
- FS58: Paying for short-term and temporary care in a care home (PDF, 279 KB)
- FS59: How to resolve problems and complain about social care (PDF, 384 KB)
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