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  1. What are telecare and telehealth services?

    Telecare and telehealth services and equipment is designed to help you live independently and stay safe and in control of your health. Find out more with Age UK.

  2. 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.

  3. How to make your home safer and more comfortable

    If it’s getting harder to manage at home, making some simple adaptations or equipment around your home could really help. Find out more from Age UK.

  4. Home aids and adaptations

    There are home adaptions and equipment that can help you live more safely, comfortably and independently. Find out more from Age UK.

  5. Embracing at-home exercise

    Personal trainer Lavina Mehta MBE’s workout videos are removing barriers for older people who want to get more active.

  6. Random acts of kindness

    Sometimes it's the smallest of things that can make our day. Here's some inspiration for random acts of kindness you could show to an older person today.

  7. Students of digital confidence

    and with a lovely view of the garden, Gita is teaching older people about getting online. Gita, who works as a teacher at a college, is the IT Trainer here and will teach several of these classes today. ... benefit their lives each day. One-to-one assistance is provided and personalised based on the level of experience and proficiency the individual has - after Gita establishes this with an assessment when

  8. The significance of stories

    How powerful stories can bring the challenges and joys of older age to life. Age UK storyteller Rosemary shares her experience of using the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service.

  9. Stories of Painful Journeys

    Age UK hears from thousands of older people who really struggle with travelling to hospital. Peter, Subash and Connie explains just how painful their journeys are in their own words below.

  10. The cost of cold

    to keep their heating on or run medical equipment for their health but we’re hearing from thousands, like Raymond and Geraldine, who are simply too scared of the high costs if they do. Many tell us ... up huge debts using essential, and sometime life-saving, medical equipment like a dialysis machine. Read our report on tackling the cost of living crisis for older people Raymond I’m turning all radiators

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