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  1. 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.

  2. What is a carer's assessment?

    If you're a carer, a good first step to getting support is to arrange a carer's assessment with your local council. Find out more with Age UK.

  3. The financial assessment for care explained

    The financial assessment is used to work out how your care will be paid for. Find out more from Age UK.

  4. Health conditions that can affect your driving

    and advice can help you learn how to declare health conditions to the DVLA, undertake a driving assessment and adapt to life without driving.

  5. Risk for older people in the community from coronavirus

    coronavirus guidelines loosening, Dr Elizabeth Webb discusses the factors we should be weighing up to assess our own risk.

  6. Human rights

    safeguards, which have been developed by the courts, are called Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS). DOLS set out a procedure for care homes and hospitals to obtain authorisation to deprive someone of ... consent I should not be sent to a care home or hospital unless the DOLS procedure has been followed. If I have been detained following DOLS there should be a periodic independent check to ensure that this

  7. Protecting older people’s precious right to liberty

    problem. The way this protection is offered by application for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS). The debate about this Bill is taking place against a context of worries about the current system ... significant strengthening. Clearly, the balance between care home managers who in the new Bill prepare assessments, and the local authorities and clinical commissioning groups who authorise them, is not in the

  8. Do I have to sell my home to pay for care?

    you'll need to pay for care will be worked out through a financial assessment. Whether or not your home is included in the financial assessment will depend on your circumstances. Find out more about whether

  9. Care plans

    If you’re found to have care and support needs after your care needs assessment, you’ll get a care plan. This plan sets out how your local council is going to meet your social care needs.

  10. Deprivation of assets in social care

    as money, property or income) on purpose so that they won’t be included in the financial assessment for care home fees. If your local council decides you've reduced your assets to avoid paying care

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