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  1. Age UK response to Home Office Domestic Abuse Consultation - October 2014 (PDF)

    Consultation Response Home office: strengthening the law on domestic abuse Ref 2314 Date: 15 October 2014 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic

  2. Behind the Headlines – The Battle to Get Care at Home

    1 Behind the Headlines: the battle to get care at home May 2018 Benita Pursch/ Ruthe Isden 2 Introduction Over a third of the calls to Age UK’s information and advice line are from ... questions about social care at home. The stories they relate are deeply revealing; for many older people and their families it seems, getting access to decent quality, reliable home care, and maintaining it

  3. Factsheet - Disability equipment and home adaptations (PDF)

    Disability equipment and home adaptations March 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet covers the help you can get from the local authority to manage your daily life at home by the provision of disability ... disability equipment and home adaptations. It can be read in conjunction with other Age UK factsheets and information guides including: ⚫ factsheet 46, Paying for care and support at home ⚫ factsheet 41, How

  4. Factsheet - Finding choosing and funding a care home (PDF)

    funding a care home July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet gives information about finding, choosing and funding a suitable care home including types of homes, how to identify the right home for you, ... funding of care home placements. This includes information about the rules for local authority funding. There is also information about making private, self-funded arrangements with a care home. Age UK produces

  5. Factsheet - Paying for care and support at home (PDF)

    support at home May 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains charging for social care services in places other than care homes, mainly related to services provided in your own home. It also covers ... in the Useful organisations section. Age UK factsheet 46 May 2026 Paying for care and support at home Page 2 of 27 Contents 1 Recent developments 4 2 Sources and terms used in this factsheet 4 3 How to

  6. Consultation response - Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating in homes off the gas grid, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.pdf

    Consultation Response Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating in homes off the gas grid. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) January 2022 Contact: david.southgate@ageuk ... out the installation of fossil fuel heating systems in homes off the gas grid from 2026. Key points and recommendations • With 4 million homes in Great Britain without a gas network connection, and half

  7. Review submission - Review of Criterion C of the Decent Homes Standard Department of Levelling up Housing and Communities, June 2023.pdf

    Age UK’s written response Decent Homes Standard Review Criterion C lisabel.miles@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational ... following elements of criterion C of the Decent Homes Standard: • Removing multiple choice from essential facilities • Adding additional facilities: ventilation, home security, safety requirements, digital connectivity

  8. Consultation response - A Decent Homes Standard in the Private Rented Sector Department of Levelling up Housing and Communities, April 2022.pdf

    Consultation Response A Decent Homes Standard in the Private Rented Sector: Consultation lisabel.miles@ageuk.org.uk All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or ... enforcement of a Decent Homes Standard in the private rented sector in England. Age UK consultation response Key points and recommendations: • Age UK welcomes extending the Decent Homes Standard to the private

  9. Factsheet - Home improvements and repairs (PDF)

    Page 1 of 26 Factsheet 67 Home improvements and repairs March 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet provides information about the help you can get if your home is in a poor condition or unsuitable ... this factsheet can be found in the Useful organisations section. Age UK factsheet 67 March 2026 Home improvements and repairs Page 2 of 26 Contents 1 Recent developments 4 2 Local authority help 4 2

  10. Adapting your home information guide (PDF)

    AgeUKIG17 Ways to help you stay living at home. Adapting your home. 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining our Readers’ ... Dunelm. Published: August 2024 3 Contents What this guide is about 4. Thinking about your home. Accessing your home. 7. Getting around. 8. Using the stairs. 9. Getting up and dressed. 10. In the kitchen

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