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Older People Generic

Useful Reading

Agebusters is designed to be an invaluable first port-of-call for anyone wishing to know about the UK’s Age Discrimination Regulations. Within Age Regulations and Useful Links there are specific sections tailored to the needs of:

Individuals

Employers

Labour market intermediaries (such as recruitment agencies, job brokers, training and adult career advice providers)

Journalists and broadcasters.

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Age Concern Great source for information on social care, health, pensions and more. Below are just some of the links

Information & Advice

Information on Care Support

Health Information

Housing Information

Income & Pensions

Money In Your Pocket

Aid for the Aged in Distress applies compassion and common sense, ripping away red tape and acting swiftly to improve the lives of elderly people in genuine need. We aim to do this as quickly as possible.

There are many and varied reasons why an application for a grant is made to us because there are so many obstacles to an impoverished, older person. So much that society takes for granted and that are often deemed to be necessities, have become impossible to attain luxuries to those receiving only fixed rate pension.

BEAT Beating Eating Disorders

Eating Distress in Older People

Bettercaring is a comprehensive care home search engine and a source of vital information on care for the elderly and people with learning disabilities

Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England.

Our aim is to make sure better care is provided for everyone, whether that’s in hospital, in care homes, in people’s own homes, or elsewhere.
Care Serivices Improvement Partnership Older People's Mental Health
Counsel and Care is the national charity working with older people, their families and carers to get the best care and support. We provide personalised, in-depth advice and information, which informs our research and campaigning work.
Contact The Elderly We help people aged 75 or older. They are lonely, live at home on their own and are unable to easily get out of the house unaided.

Small local groups use volunteer drivers who each pick up 1 or 2 elderly people from their own homes. They take them to the home of a volunteer host where the volunteers and older people spend a few hours together with afternoon tea, usually on a Sunday.

Department of Health

Older People

National Service Framework for Older People

Elderly Accommodation Counsel's aim is to help older people make informed choices about meeting their housing and care needs. It was founded in 1984, and became registered as a charity in 1985. It is now more commonly known as EAC

Faith In Older People celebrates the lives of older people, supporting the spiritual care of older people and their families using a network provided by faith communities throughout the country.

First Stop Advice for Older People

Care Advice

Housing Advice

Finance Advice

Rights Advice

Food Standards Agency

Eat Well, Be Well

Help The Aged Information for the older generation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation JRF has three inter-connected aims:

• Poverty: to examine the root causes of poverty and disadvantage and identify solutions. Read more...
• Empowerment: to find ways in which people and communities can have control of their own lives. Read more...
• Place: to contribute to the building and development of strong, cohesive and sustainable communities. Read more...

MacMillan Cancer Care

Cancer & Older People This section aims to give information and support to older people diagnosed with cancer, and their families. It aims to answer some of the questions you may have about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and help you to deal with some of the feelings you may have. Other sources of support and information are given, which we hope you will find useful

Mind is a national mental health charity

Older People and Mental Health

National Benevolent Fund for the Aged was founded to improve the quality of life for older people in the UK who live on a low income.

National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)

Mental wellbeing and older people Guidance for Occupational therapy and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care

Focus on Older People

National Statistics

OPAAL is a registered charity with 175 member groups, which seeks to give the strategic lead in the development of independent advocacy for older people OPAAL’s immediate aims are

• to promote independent advocacy with older people as a right
• to contribute to the development of standards, including greatly improved access, and
• to develop better practice in the field.
  

Relatives & Residents Association exists for older people needing, or living in, residential care and the families and friends left behind.
Royal College of Psychiatrists A good source for information

Alcohol & Older People

Older People & Mental Health & Mental Health

Tax Help for Older People (TOP)

The Relatives & Residents Association exists for older people needing, or living in, residential care and the families and friends left behind.

Relatives often need a listening ear to cope with feelings of guilt about their perceived inability to carry on caring. They may want to know how to get help in understanding the complex rules and regulations about paying for care or to complain about the quality of care their loved ones are receiving.