Extra help with essential costs if you’re on a low income
If you’re on a low income and have to meet the cost of unplanned expenses, you may be eligible for a payment from the Social Fund or your local council to help. This factsheet explains what you may be eligible for, how payments are made and how to complai
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Questions to Ask about Care Homes
This factsheet provides a checklist of things to ask about care homes.
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Royal British Legion’s Care Homes
The Legion has six care homes to provide short and long term care for serving and ex-Service people and their dependants. Situated around the country, they offer a wide range of services including four with specialist dementia care.
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Abbeyfield Society
Some of the services provided by Abbeyfield include: 1) Very sheltered housing in over 800 houses in the UK. Residents come and go as they please, receive visitors and enjoy two cooked meals a day. They are free from the worries of maintaining a hous
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Association of Independent Care Advisers
Choosing the most suitable kind of care for yourself or for a relative is never simple. An Independent Care Adviser may be able to help you to decide whether to stay or move into a residential or nursing home, select the right home and weigh up how much
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Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner (Factsheet 39)
This factsheet explains how being part of a couple affects your eligibility for local authority funding if you need to move into a care home. It also looks at how your entitlement to Pension Credit may be affected. The information in this factsheet foc
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Hospital Discharge Arrangements
This factsheet describes the arrangements that should be made for people leaving hospital and explains which services might be available and how to find out about and obtain them.
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Disability and Ageing: Your Rights to Social Services
Aims to help people find out if they have a right to social services because they are elderly or have a disability. It describes the mandatory and discretionary Social Services, how to apply for services, and how to challenge Social Services decisions.
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