Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. We will be known by our new name from Spring 2010. The Age UK family includes Age Scotland‚ Age Cymru and Age NI.
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Information & advice
Care information
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Care home checklistChoosing a care home is an important decision. Finding out as much as you can about a home will help you to make an informed choice.
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How to find a care homeOur honest‚ easy-to-follow information guide on choosing the right care home will ensure you make the right housing choices.
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Help with care in your own homeOur clear‚ easy information guide to sources of help and first steps towards obtaining that help.
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Direct Payments videoThis film features older people in receipt of Direct Payments who feel that their lives have been enriched by being able to access support that they have chosen.
- Attendance Allowance
- Attendance Allowance - FS34
- Care home checklist
- Choice of accommodation - care homes - FS60
- Deprivation of assets in the means test for care home provision - FS40
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - FS62
- Disability equipment and how to get it - FS42
- Disability Living Allowance - FS52
- Finding care home accommodation - FS29
- Finding help at home - FS6
- How to resolve problems and make a complaint about a local authority - FS59
- Later life as and older lesbian‚ gay or bisexual person
- Local authority assessment for community care services - FS41
- NHS continuing health care and NHS-funded nursing care - FS20
- Paying for care and support at home - FS46
- Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner - FS39
- Paying for permanent residential care - FS10
- Paying for temporary care in a care home - FS58
- Planning for later life: transgender people - IS30
- Self directed support: direct payments‚ personal budgets and individual budgets - FS24
- Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision - FS38
- Email a friend
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Elderly care home - make the right housing choices
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