Age UK Information Guides and Factsheets are available in our office, or can be downloaded directly from the Age UK website by clicking on the links below.
Information guides
AgeUKIG02: Lesbian, gay or bisexual
AgeUKIG07: Going into hospital
AgeUKIG12: Claiming benefits: a guide for people of working age
AgeUKIG15: Managing incontinence
AgeUKIG18: Help with legal advice
AgeUKIG19: Managing your money
AgeUKIG22: Making the most of the internet
AgeUKIG26: Personal budgets in social care
AgeUKIG28: Can I afford to retire?
AgeUKIG29: Looking after someone else’s affairs
AgeUKIG30: Save energy, pay less
AgeUKIG31: Wills and estate planning
AgeUKIG33: Your rights at work
AgeUKIG34: Working past retirement
AgeUKIG36: Your consumer rights
AgeUKIG37: Caring for your eyes
AgeUKIG43: More money in your pocket
AgeUKIG44: In the driving seat
AgeUKIL1: Staying cool in a heatwave
AgeUKIL8: How to be an executor
Strength and balance exercises for healthy ageing
Factsheets
FS2: Buying retirement housing
FS3: Television licence concessions
FS5: Dental care – NHS and private treatment
FS8: Council and housing association housing
FS9: Anti-social behaviour in housing
FS10: Paying for permanent residential care
FS11: Help with looking for work or starting your own business
FS12: Planning for retirement: money and tax
FS13: Funding repairs, improvements and adaptations
FS16: Transgender issues in later life
FS18: Information about telephones
FS20: NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care
FS22: Arranging for someone to make decisions about your finance or welfare
FS24: Self-directed support: Direct Payments & Personal Budgets
FS26: Public transport and concessions
FS29: Finding care home accommodation
FS37: Hospital discharge arrangements
FS38: Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision
FS39: Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner
FS40: Deprivation of assets in the means test for care home provision
FS41: LA assessment for community care services
FS42: Disability equipment and how to get it
FS46: Paying for care and support at home
FS49: The Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision
FS52: Disability living allowance
FS55: Carer’s Allowance
FS56: Guide to benefits for people under state pension age
FS58: Paying for temporary care in a care home
FS59: How to resolve problems and make a complaint about social care
FS62: Deprivation of liberty safeguards
FS63: Finding private rented accommodation
FS64: Retirement (sheltered) housing
FS66: Resolving problems and making a complaint about NHS care
FS67: Tenants rights: repairs
FS68: Tenants rights: Security of tenure
FS70: Dealing with disputes at work
FS72: Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills
FS74: Challenging welfare benefit decisions
FS76: Intermediate care and re-ablement
FS77: The law on age discrimination
FS78: Safeguarding older people from abuse
FS79: The Equality Act 2010: the Public Sector Equality Duty
FS80: Employment and Support Allowance
FS81: Calculating income-related Employment and Support Allowance
FS82: Switching energy supplier
FS83: The Equality Act 2010: further and higher education
FS84: The Equality Act 2010 and employment
FS85: Consumer contract rights
FS86: Consumer: your rights under general contracts
FS87: Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
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