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  1. Summary of findings from Age UK’s survey of disabled older people who receive Attendance Allowance - Sep 16 (PDF)

    1 Summary of findings from Age UK’s survey of disabled older people who receive Attendance Allowance September 2016 Introduction The Government is asking for views on transferring support currently ... The benefits have preventive roles in helping people avoid moves into residential care or nursing homes, and maintaining or avoiding deterioration in health.2 Age UK has previously asked older people about

  2. FS78 LP Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    Page 1 of 36 Factsheet 78 Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect December 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains the law on safeguarding adults to help you decide what to do if ... at risk of abuse or neglect. Safeguarding means protecting people’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. Whether you know the person through your role as a professional, a carer, relative

  3. FS78 Safeguarding order people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    Page 1 of 28 Factsheet 78 Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect December 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains the law on safeguarding adults to help you decide what to do if ... at risk of abuse or neglect. Safeguarding means protecting people’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. Whether you know the person through your role as a professional, a carer, relative

  4. FS78 Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    Page 1 of 28 Factsheet 78 Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect December 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains the law on safeguarding adults to help you decide what to do if ... at risk of abuse or neglect. Safeguarding means protecting people’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. Whether you know the person through your role as a professional, a carer, relative

  5. Pension receipt in the UK: are older individuals from ethnic minorities disadvantaged? - Sep 14 (PDF)

    Pension receipt in the UK: are older individuals from ethnic minorities disadvantaged? Athina Vlachantoni, Zhixin Frank Feng, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham ... pension and the Pension Credit. Using data from Understanding Society dataset, this briefing summarises research showing the determinants of receiving pensions from different sources in later life by women

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

    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 older people and families ... 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. FS25 LP Returning from abroad.pdf

    Page 1 of 28 Factsheet 25 Returning from abroad December 2025 About this factsheet If you are a British national over State Pension age who moved abroad but are now considering moving back to live permanently ... eligibility for health and social care services. In Wales, following the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act on 1 December 2022, tenants are now known as ‘contract-holders’ and tenancy agreements

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