RESOURCES & INFORMATION
Age Concern | www.aceorg.uk |
Information on aging issues, campaigns, annual reports and a list of local chapters. | |
Action for Advocacy | www.actionforadvocacy.org.uk |
Includes an online map of advocacy services for England and Wales | |
Action for Elder Abuse | www.elderabuse.org.uk |
Alzheimer’s Society | www.alzheimers.org.uk |
The UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and caregivers | |
Arthritis Care | www.arthritiscare.org.uk |
Dedicated website for caregivers | |
British Institute of Learning Disability | www.bild.org.uk |
Business Link | www.businesslink.gov.uk |
Practical advice for business | |
British Heart Foundation | www.bhf.org.uk |
Cancer Backup | www.cancerbackup.org.uk |
UK's leading cancer information charity, with over 6,500 pages of up-to-date cancer information,
practical advice and support for cancer patients, their families and caregivers | |
CareAware UK | www.careaware.co.uk |
non profit making public information, advisory and advocacy service specialising in elderly care funding advice in the UK | |
Caregivers Line | www.caregiversonline.org.uk |
Caregivers UK's free advice line for caregivers. (Open Mon.-Fri., 10am-12 and 2-4pm) | 0808 808 7777 |
Commission for Social Care Inspection | www.csci.org.uk |
Inspects and reports on social care services to help improve quality for people who use services | |
Connect | www.ukconnect.org |
The Communication Disability Network - for people living with stroke and aphasia. | |
Criminal Records Check Bureau | www.crb.gov.uk |
The CRB’s aim is to help organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors by identifying
candidates who may be unsuitable to work with children or other vulnerable members of society | |
Deafblind UK | www.deafblind.org.uk |
Provides support services to and campaigning on behalf of deafblind adults and their caregivers. | |
Disabled Living Foundation | www.dlf.org.uk |
Provides free, impartial advice about all types of equipment for older and disabled people,
from jar openers to tap turners, stairlifts to walk-in baths. | |
Disability Information Service | www.diss.org.uk |
Impartial and independent disability information to, from and across the UK | |
Downs Syndrome | www.downs-syndrome.org.uk |
Epilepsy Action | www.epilepsy.org.uk |
Equality & Human Rights Commission | www.equalityhumanrights.com |
Health & Safety Executive | www.hse.gov.uk |
Health and safety information | |
Help the Aged | www.helptheaged.org.uk |
HM Revenue & Customs | www.hmrc.gov.uk |
Independent Age | wwwindependentage.org.uk |
Helps older people on low incomes to live with dignity and peace of mind | |
MENCAP | www.mencap.org.uk |
Multiple Sclerosis Society | www.mssociety.org.uk |
| 800-854-3402 | |
Muscular Dystrophy | www.muscular-dystrophy.org |
Mental Health Foundation | www.mentalhealth.org.uk |
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