Age UK Factsheets
Age UK Information Guides and Factsheets...
Age UK's Information Guides and Factsheets are short and easy to digest, giving an overview of the relevant topic. Check out the range of information available on topics such as Money and Legal, Health and Wellbeing, Home and Care and more!
Information Guides...
Money and Legal
Contains:
- Attendance Allowance
- Avoiding Scams
- Carers Allowance
- Council Tax Reduction
- Equity Release
- Getting Help with Debt
- How to be an Executor
- LGBT+
- Looking after your Money
- More Money in your Pocket
- Pension Credit
- Power of Attorney
- Save Energy, Pay Less
- State Pension
- Thinking about End of Life
- Universal Credit
- When Someone Dies
- Wills and Estate Planning
Health and Wellbeing
Contains:
- At Home with Dementia
- Bereavement
- Bladder and Bowel Problems
- Caring for Someone with Dementia
- Healthy Living
- Living with Dementia
- Staying Cool in a Heatwave
- Staying Steady
- Winter Wrapped Up
- Your Hospital Stay
- Your Mind Matters
- Feeling Lonely
- Sex, Relationships and Intimacy
Home and Care
Contains:
- Adapting your Home
- Advice for Carers
- Care Home Checklist
- Care Homes
- Getting Help at Home
- Homelessness
- Homeowners
- Housing Options
- Private Renters
- Social Housing
- Staying Safe
Travel and Lifestyle
Factsheets...
Consumer
Contains:
- Getting the Best Energy Deal
- Planning for your Funeral
- Water Advice
Health
Contains:
- Dental Care
- Hospital Discharge and Recovery
- Intermediate Care and Reablement
- NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care
- NHS Services
- Resolving Problems and Making a Complaint about NHS Care
- Trans Issues and Later Life
Housing
Contains:
- Anti-Social Behaviour in Housing
- Buying Retirement Housing
- Council and Housing Association Housing
- Equity Release
- Finding Private Rented Accomodation
- Help with Heating Costs
- Home Improvements and Repairs
- Homelessness
- Park Homes
- Preventing Evictions
- Specialist Housing for Older People
- Tenancy Rights - Rent
Income and Benefits
Contains:
- Attendance Allowance
- Benefits for People Under State Pension Age
- Carer's Allowance
- Challenging Welfare Benefit Decisions
- Council Tax
- Dealing with Debt
- Help with Health Costs
- Housing Benefit
- Pension Credit
- Pension Freedom and Benefits
- Personal Independance Payment and Disability Living Allowance
- Planning your Retirement - Money and Tax
- Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision
- State Pension
- Universal Credit
Legal
Contains:
- Advance Decisions, Advance Statements and Living Wills
- Arranging for Someone to Make Decisions on your Behalf
- Dealing with an Estate
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Equality, Discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty
- Getting Legal and Financial Advice
- Making a Will
- Returning from Abroad
- Safeguarding Older People from Abuse and Neglect
Social Care
Contains:
- Deprivation of Assets in Social Care
- Disability Equipment and Home Adaptations
- Finding Help at Home
- Finding, Choosing and Funding a Care Home
- How to get Care and Support
- How to Resolve Problems and Complain about Social Care
- Paying for Care and Support at Home
- Paying for Care in a Care Home if you have a Partner
- Paying for Permanent Residential Care
- Paying for Short-Term and Temporary Care in a Care Home
- Personal Budgets and Direct Debits in Social Care
- Property and Paying for Residential Care
Age UK Gloucestershire Resources
We also have a selection of other resources, made by us, that can help you navigate later life, stay independant and home and connect socially. You can find them below.
Age UK Gloucestershire's Help Team
Your Guide to Completing your Attendance Allowance Application
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