What we do

Help the Aged offers a range of practical solutions to support older people's independence including:

SeniorLine: Help the Aged telephone advice line - freephone 0808 800 6565 - provides welfare rights advice for older people and their carers.

SeniorLink: Help the Aged telephone response service, providing help and reassurance toolder people whenever they need it by linking them, at the touch of a button, to our 24 hour response centre.

Information: Help the Aged produces a range of free advice leaflets and information sheets covering financial, housing, home safety and health issues.

HandyVan: This scheme offers free installation of locks and smoke alarms and undertakes small jobs around the home which older people may find difficult to manage.

For more information about the range of services on offer from Help the Aged, please visit the Help the Aged website www.helptheaged.org.uk.

In particular, Help the Aged maintains links with local older people's groups up and downthe country, providing information and support. Speaking up for Our Age is a campaign launched by Help the Aged in 1998.It aims to ensure that the voices of older people are heard onmatters that affect them and to involve those whose voices arenot often heard. To achieve this, the campaign

• Provides small grants to new and existing older people's forums and groups
• Organised a series of regional conference culminating in a national conference in the summer of 1999
• Provides information on national policy developments on a monthly basis