Information for 50+

Personalisation

• Your Choice: Local care services for adults and older people
  Your Choice’ aims to give local people more choice over the care and support they receive so that it meets their own wishes and preferences but always ensures that they have help and support when they need it.

Getting out and about

• DisabledGo
  Give access information for premises and locations in Waltham Forest

Health and wellbeing

• Care at home
  Services designed to help people with a disability, and others, to continue to live independently and safely in their own homes
• Community alarm
  Special pendant worn on the wrist or neck which enables you to call for help if you are having difficulties
• Dementia support service
  Support service for people living at home who are confused or have memory loss
• Keeping warm in winter
  Advice on keeping yourself warm, helping others to stay warm and the danger signs of hypothermia
• Meals on wheels
  Hot meal delivery service
• Occupational Therapy Assessment
  Assessment done by Occupational Therapists to determine what advice or equipment is needed to improve independence

Housing

• Day centres
  The Morley Day Centre offer support to older people who want to remain living in their own homes
• Residential and nursing care for 65+
  Guidance on need assessments, arranging care, paying for care and residential homes

Learning

• Community Learning and Skills Service (CLaSS)
  View the 2009/10 prospectus for the adult learning and skills service

Travel

• DisabledGo
  Give access information, including details of parking and public transport, for premises and locations in Waltham Forest
• Freedom Pass for 60+
  Apply for a Freedom Pass to travel free on London’s public transport including buses, Tube, trains and the Docklands Light Railway

Finances

• Pensions and retirement planning information from DirectGov