Useful Websites

A list of useful links and websites.

Alzheimer's Society
the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them.
Abbeyfield
helps older people enjoy a high quality of independent living provided through a range of services, including housing, support or care, with local community involvement.
Benevolence Today
a coalition of benevolent charities. It aims to raise the awareness and understanding of benevolent charities, and to embed benevolent services with other services and advice available to people in need. A large group of the coalition’s beneficiaries / service users are older people.
CLS Group
a charitable organisation operating over 30 residential care homes including nine specialist dementia households in the North West.
Care Quality Commission
regulates, inspects and reviews all adult social care services in the public, private and voluntary sectors in England.
Contact the Elderly
helps people aged 75 or older who 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.

Counsel and Care for the Elderly

a charity giving advice and information to older people, their relatives and carers on community care, care homes and housing with care.
Help the Aged
an international charity (Charity number 272786) and Company Limited by Guarantee (Registration Number 1263446) whose mission is to secure and uphold the rights of disadvantaged older people in the UK and overseas. HtA operates Seniorline, a telephone advice and information service available throughout the UK for older people, their relatives and friends.
Home Heat Helpline
a free service to help people who are worried about paying their energy bills and keeping warm.
Housingcare.org
a website run by EAC providing advice on elderly care, including specialist directories and information on nursing homes and residential care homes, as well as sheltered housing, extra care housing, assisted living, close care housing and retirement villages, across the UK.
Independent Age
helps older people to live with independence and dignity in their later years
NHFA
NHFA is a division of HSBC Bank plc which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. NHFA’s care fees advisory service provides financial and care advice on the many complex financial and legislative issues older people or their families face when considering paying for care.
Nursing Care Guide
is an informative, user-friendly site dedicated to help you through an often difficult and confusing time whether it be looking for care for yourself or a loved one.
Turn2us
a charity established to help people access money available to them through benefits and grants.
UKHCA
the the professional association of home care providers from the independent, voluntary, not-for-profit and statutory sectors and publishes general advice about homecare such as the type of questions you may wish to ask a homecare provider you plan to purchase care from, as well information on comments and complaints. Members of the public can also access a list of homecare providers in their local area who are UKHCA members.