Keeping well this winter
This winter might be even tougher than usual. But there’s lots of practical things you can do to look after yourself.
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Information and advice
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Coronavirus guidance
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- Advice on caring for someone in another household
- Advice on caring for someone you live with
- Arranging a funeral
- Benefits and accessing cash - coronavirus advice
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- Support bubbles
- Coronavirus: your questions answered
- Doing your shopping
- Face covering guidance
- Housing rights advice during coronavirus pandemic
- Information about coronavirus
- Returning to volunteering
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- Test and Trace
- Three-tier coronavirus alert levels: Tier 1, 2 and 3 rules explained
- Staying safe and well
- What can I do to help others?
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Money & legal
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Benefits and Entitlements
- Benefits and Entitlements
- Attendance Allowance
- Benefits Calculator – what are you entitled to?
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Carer's Allowance
- Changes to couples benefits
- Changes to the benefit system
- Cold Weather Payment
- Council Tax Support
- Disability Living Allowance
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Free bus pass and transport concessions
- Free prescriptions for over 60s
- Housing Benefit
- Blue Badge
- How to challenge a benefit decision
- How to get help with urgent or one-off expenses
- How your benefits are means-tested
- Income Support
- Jobseeker's Allowance
- Pension Credit
- Personal Independence Payment
- Returning to the UK after living abroad
- Support for Mortgage Interest
- Transport concessions for disabled people
- TV licence concessions
- Universal Credit
- Warm Home Discount Scheme
- Winter Fuel Payment
- Debt and savings
- Income and tax
- End of life planning
- Legal issues
- Pensions advice
- Scams and fraud
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Health & wellbeing
- Health & wellbeing
- Conditions and illnesses
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Health services
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- Dental services for older people
- 9 health tests that could save your life
- Getting the most from your medicines
- Getting help when feeling unwell
- NHS continuing healthcare
- Your hospital stay
- GP services for older people
- Leaving hospital
- Complaining about NHS services
- What standards you should expect from NHS services
- Being active
- Mind and body
- Loneliness
- Healthy eating
- Keep well this winter
- Relationships and family
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Care & support
- Care & support
- Finding and arranging social care
- Paying for care
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Help for carers looking after a loved one
- Help for carers looking after a loved one
- Carer's assessment
- Financial support for carers
- Advice for being a carer and working
- Caring for someone with dementia
- Looking after yourself as a carer
- Respite care: having a break from caring
- What to do when your caring role changes or ends
- Carer's checklist
- Housing options
- Problems with care
- Work & learning
- Information guides and factsheets
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Services
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