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  1. A day in the life of the Age UK Advice Line

    lady who has poor mobility and long-term health conditions and needs help around the home and garden . Together they complete an application for the disability benefit, Attendance Allowance , to increase her ... her income and allow her to pay for the support she needs. 10.30am: Anne speaks with a man whose father is about to be discharged from hospital after a long stay, due to falling at home and breaking his

  2. Being Discharged from Hospital: What Support Will I Get?

    consider if you'd benefit from intermediate care services and reablement services. These services could allow you to make as full a recovery as possible and regain confidence before making a decision about your ... to help you to relearn skills you may have lost while unwell. What is reablement? Reablement is a form of intermediate care focusing on helping you to learn or re-learn skills necessary for daily living

  3. Creativity is for life

    gardener . She has a greenhouse that allows her to grow lettuces, tomatoes, peppers and green sprouts during the summer, which supplements her food shopping and allows her to make nutritious salads. She’s ... explains Sheila.  She used to do a lot of pottery too but is no longer able to because of her mobility. “I can’t stand, so using a potter’s wheel from a wheelchair is rather difficult

  4. Margaret's resilience

    including Attendance Allowance , due to the arthritis in her knee and her osteoporosis. Margaret explains: “Even though I didn't know whether I would get the Attendance Allowance or not, it still made ... that could have been done.” Margaret’s daughter helped her fill in the Attendance Allowance form, and she was awarded it just a few weeks after submitting her application. Following this, Margaret

  5. Top tips for ageing better

    Functional fitness sounds fancy, but it really just means exercises that build your strength, stamina and mobility and help you perform real-life, day-to-day activities. Functional fitness involves movements that ... buffer to allow you to maintain function as you age. Everyday tasks like shopping, dressing, and cooking may seem easy now – maintaining strength ensures they stay that way. Good mobility and fitness

  6. Cookies

    list of the cookies we use. Cookies are tiny pieces of information that are placed on a computer or mobile device when you visit a website via your browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari or Google ... usually directly identify you, but because your privacy is important to us you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. You can learn more about the different types of cookies used on the Age UK

  7. Bereavement Support Payment

    Age UK explains Bereavement Support Payment, including eligibility, how to claim and how much you could receive.

  8. The significance of stories

    earlier this year. Rosemary always enjoyed a busy social life, but in recent years her worsening mobility has left her struggling to leave the house. She recently shared her experience of using the Age ... about the support our advice line can offer, allowing us to provide crucial guidance to more people in crisis. Thanks to Age UK, James won full attendance allowance so his household budget – and weight

  9. Home aids and adaptations

    can keep nearby a video-entry phone so you can see who's at the door – some of these phones allow you to press a button to open the door from where you’re sitting a police-approved key safe ... straight in if you're worried about overfilling the bath or sink, a special  safety plug that only allows water to reach a certain level, or a flood detector that alerts a monitoring centre if the bath or

  10. Benefits help for veterans

    State Pension age, you could claim Attendance Allowance If you're under State Pension age, you could claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Carer's Allowance If you look after someone who has a disability ... disability for more than 35 hours a week, then you could be entitled to Carer's Allowance. Find out more about Carer's Allowance For more information call the Age UK Advice Line on 0800 678 1602 . We’re open

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