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  1. FS20 LP NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care.pdf

    Page 1 of 48 Factsheet 20 NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains what NHS Continuing Healthcare is, how the NHS decides whether ... whether you are eligible for it, and what to do if you are unhappy with an eligibility decision. It explains NHS-funded nursing care – a weekly payment the NHS makes to nursing homes towards their costs of

  2. Policy Position - Social Care Reform Funding Access (Sep 24).pdf

    Policy Position Paper Social Care Reform, Funding & Access (England) September 2024 Older people should be able to expect responsive, person-centred, high quality social care services to meet ... universal and rapid care assessments that are fully integrated with other key services. Adult social care helps people who are older or living with disability or physical or mental illness to live independently

  3. FS49 The Social Fund Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision.pdf

    Page 1 of 18 Factsheet 49 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision July 2025 About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet ... or stay in the community. There is a separate scheme for Wales called the Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF) The information in this factsheet is correct for the period June 2025 to May 2026. The information

  4. Consultation response- Energy Bills Support Scheme - supplementary response to the Additional Funding scheme, BEIS.pdf

    Consultation Response Energy Bills Support Scheme Additional Funding Consultation Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. October 2022. Contact: david.southgate@ageuk.org.uk ... Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have devised initial proposals for the EBSS Additional Funding scheme to ensure that residential customers who faced exclusion from the core scheme still receive

  5. Age UK Social Care Reform and Funding policy position.pdf

    Social care reform and funding (England) May 2019 The social care system must be reformed to guarantee high-quality support for everyone who needs it and sufficiently funded to enable current and ... What is social care? Social care is broadly defined as help, care and support for people with a wide variety of needs due to disability, illness or other life situations. It includes personal

  6. Caring for someone with dementia information guide (PDF)

    help and emotional support Caring for someone with dementia Information guide AgeUKIG47 2 Information written with you in mind. Our guides are produced with the help of older people, carers and expert ... is about Looking after yourself 5 About dementia What is dementia? 8 Getting a diagnosis 10 Dealing with a diagnosis 12 Where to turn for support Support and advice 13 Talking to family and friends 15 Doing

  7. International comparison: social care funding & outcomes (PDF)

    Page 1 of 49 An international comparison of long-term care funding and outcomes: insights for the social care green paper Foreword Sometime during 2018 the Government is planning to publish a Green ... social care in England. With this in mind, towards the end of 2017 Age UK commissioned a project from Incisive Health. We asked them to explore the characteristics, including funding mechanisms, and outcomes

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

    of 28 Factsheet 29 Finding, choosing and 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 ... you, and 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

  9. Factsheet: NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care

    Page 1 of 36 Factsheet 20 NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains what NHS Continuing Healthcare is, how the NHS decides whether ... whether you are eligible for it, and what to do if you are unhappy with an eligibility decision. It explains NHS-funded nursing care – a weekly payment the NHS makes to nursing homes towards their costs of

  10. Age UK Cost of Living Response Fund final report.docx

    polled older people to better understand the impact that the cost of living crisis would have on them, with 23% of the most disadvantaged older people telling us they felt the increases in costs would have ... result being pushed into debt, living in cold houses, eating less and cutting back on social activities with friends and family to survive. To support Local and National Partners in sustaining and extending

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