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Attendance Allowance

Some older people may need help with daily living, for example, dressing, washing, or moving around indoors. Claiming Attendance Allowance can help with these costs.

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• What is Attendance Allowance?
• Who can claim Attendance Allowance?
• How to claim Attendance Allowance
• What to do if you are refused Attendance Allowance
• Attendance Allowance and other benefits
• Attendance Allowance in a care home or in hospital
• Useful contacts

This section gives details about Attendance Allowance, for those aged 65 or over. If you are under 65, you should claim Disability Living Allowance rather than Attendance Allowance.

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What are your views on the future of the care systerm and its funding.

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Shaping the future of care together

• Document type:
  Publication
• Author:
  HM Government
• Published date:
  14 July 2009
• Primary audience:
  Health and social care professionals, Public
• Alternative title:
  Shaping the Future of Care Together Green Paper
• Product number:
  Cm 7673
• Gateway reference:
  11774
• 
  
• Copyright holder:
  Crown

Shaping the Future of Care Together sets out a vision for a new care and support system. The Green Paper highlights the challenges faced by the current system and the need for radical reform, to develop a National Care Service that is fair, simple and affordable for everyone.

Within the Green Paper, it sets out a number of consultation questions and asks everyone to provide their views about how they think Government can make this vision a reality and develop a care and support system fit for the 21st century.

The consultation will run from 14 July 2009 to 13 November 2009.

• Download Shaping the future of care together (PDF, 1421K)
• Download easy read version (PDF, 1891K)
• Download impact assessment (PDF, 603K)
• Download equality impact assessment (PDF, 188K)

Link to the consultation

• Shaping the future of care together - consultation

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Welcome to Emma RoseCare Service Advice. This website is for you unsung heros' who provide care and support to those in need. We would like to hear and know your views and comments. Tells us about the services you provide.........one of the greatest opportunities that faces us this century is to respond to the needs of the ageing population and to harness effectively the contributions older people can and do make to society. Please take some time and look at the current informtion with dementia. http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/pages/introduction.aspx