These factsheets are produced by Age Concern and have been made available to LTU.
To access them members simply have to click on the relevant factsheet and they will be transferred directly to the Age Concern website. Once there members can view and download their chosen factsheets.
Tools
Benefits checker
Care and Support
How to find a care home
Care home checklist
Help with care in your own home
Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance
Attendance Allowance
Basic guide to attendance allowance and disability living allowance
Care home closures
Care home funding and attendance allowance
Carer's allowance
Choice of accommodation: care homes
Direct payments from social services
Disability equipment and how to get it
Finding care home accommodation
Finding help at home
Help with health costs
Local authority assessment for community care services
Local authority charging procedures for care homes
NHS continuing health care‚ NHS-funded nursing care and intermediate care
Paying for care and support at home
Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner
Supporting people: paying for supported accommodation
Transfer of assets and paying for care in a care home
Treatment of the former home as capital for people in care homes
Consumer Issues
Bogus callers – how to protect yourself
Protect yourself from scams
Arranging for others to make decisions about your finances or welfare
Consumer advice: where to get it
Crime prevention for older people
Dealing with someone's estate
Digital switchover questions and answers
Help with heating
Information about telephones
Making the most of your money
Moving home checklist
Planning a holiday
Planning for a funeral
Planning your retirement income
Television licence concessions
Water advice
End of Life
What to do when someone dies
Putting your affairs in order
Advance decisions‚ advance statements and living wills
Dealing with debt
Instructions for my next-of-kin and executors on my death
Planning for a funeral
Health
What to expect as you get older
Going solo
Hot tips for a cool summer
Your guide to healthy living
Going into hospital
Your health services
Care home checklist
Disability and ageing: your rights to social services
Disability equipment and how to get it
Help with continence
Help with health costs
Hospital discharge arrangements
Making the most of your money
Moving back to the United Kingdom
NHS continuing health care‚ NHS-funded nursing care and intermediate care
NHS services
Planning to live abroad
Staying healthy in later life
Winter wrapped up
Housing
Adapting your home
Your home‚ your choice
Planning to live abroad
Living well in your home
Living well in your neighbourhood
Buying retirement housing
Care home checklist
Concessions for older people
Help with heating
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Housing choices in retirement
Housing options
How to claim benefits
Information about telephones
Looking for rented housing
Moving back to the United Kingdom
Moving home checklist
Noise and neighbour nuisance: What you can do?
Older home owners: financial help with repairs and adaptations
Park (mobile) homes
Raising income or capital from your home
Social Fund and other sources of financial help
Supporting people: paying for supported accommodation
Television licence concessions
Tenants' rights
The Council Tax
Water advice
Your home‚ your choice
Income and Pensions
How to claim benefits
Attendance Allowance
Making the most of your money
Financial help in retirement
Planning your retirement income
A brief guide to money benefits
Arranging for others to make decisions about your finances or welfare
Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance
Basic guide to attendance allowance and disability living allowance
Care home funding and attendance allowance
Carer's allowance
Concessions for older people
Dealing with debt
Deferring retirement pension questions and answers
Equity release and income-related benefits
How to get information and advice about your investments
Income Tax
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Making the most of your money
Older home owners: financial help with repairs and adaptations
Payment of pension and benefits into Bank accounts
Pension Credit
Planning your retirement income
Raising income or capital from your home
Social Fund and other sources of financial help
Television licence concessions
The Council Tax
The pension credit: questions and answers
The State Pension
Leisure and Travel
Leisure and learning
Making the most of your money
Moving back to the United Kingdom
Planning a holiday
Retiring abroad
Travel and transport
Work and Learning
Help with looking for work or starting your own business
Leisure and learning
Your employment choices