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Age Concern factsheets are the most comprehensive guide to the issues that affect older people in the UK.

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N.B. AgeUK are continually updating factsheets and some titles are subject to change. The information on this page is correct as of 04/06/2010.

CONSUMER

  

Number

Title
3
27
33

HEALTH

  

Number

Title
5
23
Help with continence (Feb 10)
44
61
Help with health costs (Jun 09)
66
Resolving problems and making a complaint about NHS care (Aug 09)
76

HOUSING

  

Number

Title
1
2
Buying retirement housing (Jul 09)
8
Council and housing association housing (May 10)
9
Anti-social behaviour in housing (Oct 09)
13
Funding repairs, improvements and adaptations (Sep 09)
35
Tenants’ rights – rents (Aug 09)
42
Disability equipment and how to get it (Sep 09)
63
Finding private rented accommodation (May 10)
64
Retirement (sheltered) housing (May 10)
65
Equity Release (Aug 09)
67
Tenants’ rights – repairs (Aug 09)
68
Tenants’ rights – security of tenure (Aug 09)
69
Water advice (Sep 09)
71
Park Homes (Oct 09)

INCOME & BENEFITS

  

Number

Title
15
Income Tax (Apr 10)
17
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Apr 10)
19
The State Pension (Apr 10)
Briefing – Changes to women’s state pension age and the impact on other benefits and concessions (March 10)
21
Council Tax (Apr 10)
34
Attendance Allowance (Apr 10)
48
Pension Credit (Apr 10)
49
The Social Fund (Apr 10)
52
Disability Living Allowance (Apr 10)
53
Capital, income and means-tested benefits (Apr 10)
55
Carer’s Allowance (Apr 10)
56
Benefits for people under State Pension age (Jun 09)
74
How to challenge a benefits decision (Nov 09)
75
Debt management (Nov 09)

SOCIAL CARE

  

Number

Title
6
Finding help at home (Oct 09)
10
Paying for permanent residential care (Apr 10)
20
NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care (Sep 09)
24
Self-directed support: direct payments, personal budgets and individual budgets (Jul 09)
Supplementary Sheet (Nov 09)
29
Finding care home accommodation (Oct 09)
37
Hospital discharge arrangements (May 10)
38
Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision (Apr 10)
39
Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner (Apr 10)
40
Deprivation of assets in the means test for care home provision (Aug 10)
41
Local authority assessment for community care services (Aug 09)
46
Paying for care and support at home (Apr 10)
58
Paying for temporary care in a care home (Apr 10)