Factsheets & Guides

Healthy Living - Information Guide

This guide highlights the benefits of staying active and eating healthily.

How to be an executor - Information Guide

This guide provides a clear checklist of an executor’s duties, including how to register the death, sort out Inheritance Tax and deal with different assets.

Equity Release - Information Guide

This information guide is designed to help you decide if equity release is the right choice for you.

Save energy, pay less - Information Guide

This guide looks at both simple measures and more significant changes, such as installing insulation and draught-proofing, and how to get help with the costs.

Equipment to make life easier - South Lakeland

This list provides some idea of where you can get equipment from Alarms and Disabled Parking Badge to Hearing Aids to help when everyday tasks become a little harder.

Living with Dementia - South Lakeland

This leaflet provide advice on how to get help from Social Services, financial support and the aids and equipments what you need.

Who can help in South Lakeland

This is a list of organisations providing housing, safety or financial support for older people in South Lakeland.

Societies and Clubs - South Lakeland

This list aims to give you help and advice to find the best Societies and Clubs in South Lakeland.

Sheltered housing to rent - South Lakeland

List of Sheltered Housing opportunities to rent in South Lakeland

Sheltered housing to buy - South Lakeland

List of Sheltered Housing opportunities to buy in South Lakeland

Safety in the home - South Lakeland

Care Alarms, Lifeline, Fire safety, Home Security and Falls Prevention

Organ & Tissue Donor Fact Sheet

Organ Donation Facts & Key Partners

Home Care - South Lakeland

Personal and home care services - South Lakeland

Help with transport - South Lakeland

Disabled parking (blue) badges, public transport (bus & train travel) and other services

Help with fuel costs - South Lakeland

Grants, Government Help and other sources

Chiropodists - South Lakeland

Chiropodists and Podiatrists in the South Lakeland Area

Housing Services, Directory for older people, their families and carers

This directory highlights housing and related services for older people living in the South Lakeland area.

Information relates to; keeping independent, safe and well within your home, independent advice and advocacy organisations as well as alternativ

Caring for someone with dementia - Information Guide

This guide takes you through the dementia journey, from getting a diagnosis to talking to family and friends, joining a carers group, accessing help, and the practical things such as sorting out someone’s finances and legal affairs

Finding, choosing and funding a care home - Factsheet

This factsheet gives information about finding, choosing and funding a suitable care home including types of homes, how to identify the right home for you and funding of care home placements.

Making a will - Factsheet

This factsheet explains what you should think about when making your will and how to make sure that the will is legal, effective and your wishes are carried out.