Housing Options & Home Maintenance
Age UK Wiltshire offers free and comprehensive advice on a wide range of subjects.
We can help you identify the problem, explain the choices available and help you decide what you want to do. We may be able to provide individual support if you need further help to resolve the problem.
Our services
- Advice on housing options including accessing sheltered housing, Local Authority housing register allocations and Almshouses
- Advice to help keep you independent at home, such as accessing aids/equipment and maintenance
- Information about your housing arrangements and rights such as tenancy and tenure types.
- Signposting to specialist housing advice for more complex queries such as homelessness, repairs
How we deliver the service
- Telephone advice
- Email advice
- Face to face office appointments
- Information guides and factsheets
Our Resources
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Age UK Information Guides and Factsheets
Age UK produces free information guides and factsheets on a wide range of topics, including home adaptations, benefits, dementia, and advice for carers.
You can find a complete list of guides and factsheets on the Age UK national website.
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Housing Options
There are several housing options available for older people, including rented and private purchase sheltered housing, Almshouses and extra care housing.
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Home Maintenance
You can read our Choosing a Reputable Trader Guide to help make decisions about choosing a company or service to help you at home.
Choosing a Reputable Trader Guide (PDF, 283 KB)
Wiltshire Bobby Van Home Security Visits
Common Questions
Your most common enquiries answered!
We provide free, confidential and impartial advice on a wide range of topics and have created some frequently asked questions to cover the things we get asked about most often - from benefits to care and lots in between.
Our Quality Standards
Our Information & Advice service has achieved the national Advice Quality Standard and been assessed as meeting the benchmarks of the Age UK Information & Advice Quality Programme. This ensures we comply with recognised Advice Sector standards of practice and means our information and advice is accurate and high quality.
