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Why do we value old objects over older people? Age UK is here to change how we age.
Here's how, with your support, Age UK is supporting older people through the cost of living crisis.
A range of products to help you make the most of later life are available through Age UK Trading, with profits given to the charity.
Thousands of older people have made lasting friendships, or simply enjoyed a chat when they wanted one, through our free Telephone Friendship Service and the Silver Line helpline.
Sign up as a volunteer for the telephone friendship service to talk to older people to help loneliness and isolation.
How our Telephone Friendship Service is offering older people new ways to be creative.
Engage your employees by volunteering to make a weekly friendship call to a lonely older person.
Silver Line Helpline run by Age UK is a free, confidential telephone service for older people. We provide friendship, conversation and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Caitlin, a volunteer for our telephone friendship service, explains how chess lessons brought her and her friend Sydney closer together.
Linda, a member of the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service, discusses her relationship with her great-grandson, Cayden.
explains why we need more volunteers for the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service and how rewarding the service is for older people and their telephone friends alike.
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An executor is a person named in a will who sorts out the estate of the person who's died. Find out more information on what executors do from Age UK.