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  1. Frailty and the NHS Long Term Plan

    people living with frailty. It includes three ambitious new service models: Improve NHS care in care homes. Identify and provide proactive support to older people living with frailty in the community. Enhance ... community response at times of crisis. The aim is to support people to age well and to stay independent at home for longer. The Personalisation Plan aims to change the way NHS services and health professionals

  2. Volunteer with your local Age UK

    Support your local Age UK services, from being a handyman or computer training instructor to supporting dementia-friendly day centres.

  3. Staying safe information guide

    Our guide can help you stay safe at home, out and about and online.

  4. Homeowners information guide

    Download our guide to find out more about owning, buying or selling a home.

  5. Care needs assessment

    You need to get a care needs assessment from your local council in order to be eligible for support from social services. Find out more from Age UK.

  6. Government must act now to avert disaster in our care homes

    unease about the extent to which care homes are getting the Government help they need is turning rapidly to anger and real alarm. Some 400,000 older people live in care homes in this country and the vast majority ... financial resilience and the capacity to deliver consistently good care across the care home sector. Although care homes are by no means all the same some problems are common to most: difficulty in recruiting

  7. Disabled Facilities Grants & other help to get home adaptations and equipment

    You may be entitled to free disability equipment or small adaptations from your local council, or to a Disabled Facilities Grant for larger adaptations. Find out more with Age UK.

  8. Why vaccines are so important

    so pleased. Everything was so straightforward when I got mine recently. I received a text message from the doctors with an appointment to get my jab. The volunteers were lovely, and it was all so well ... working as a nurse at a children's hospital. The home sister, the nurse in charge, took me off the ward and put me to bed. They didn't want me staying at the hospital because I wasn't well, so they phoned

  9. Friendship services for older people

    UK explains how our befriending service works, and meet some of the older people who have benefited from befriending.

  10. Transport services for older people

    people to these places: To attend GP or hospital appointments To go the shops (through our escorted shopping services ) To visit a loved one in hospital or at a care home If an older person is attending one ... one of our lunch clubs or is going to our day centres we may be able to assist with transport to and from the event, usually by minibus. Harry, Walsall Steve gives me a lift to the lunch club every week

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