Making decisions about your housing, care or support

Making decisions about how to meet your present and future needs can be difficult. This area of the site provides a set of tools to help you.

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Housing appraisal questionnaire (HOOP)

This tool, developed by EAC, asks you questions about different aspects of where and how you live now. You can answer as many or few as you like. It then provides suggestions to help you resolve any problems you have identified.

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Library

The HousingCare library contains hundreds of fact-sheets, booklets, articles, audio tapes, videos and websites. Most materials are free to view, download and print; a handful must be ordered directly from the publisher.

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Glossary

Our quick reference guide to all the specialist terms and jargon you might come across, translated into plain English.

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Equity release guide

The equity release guide is a brand new addition to the site. The result of unique collaboration between EAC and Retirement Plus, it provides knowledgeable and impartial information about different ways of releasing equity from your home, plus details of financial advisors who specialise in equity release and retirement planning.

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EAC Advice Line

EAC's free, independent, telephone advice service to older people, their families and people who work with them. Like this website, the service aims to help older people make decisions about their housing, care or support in the full knowledge of what options are open to them, what they cost and how to get access to them.

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Other advice services

You may prefer to talk face-to-face with a local advisor, or to contact a service that specialises in a particular aspect of housing or care for older people. Our Directory of advice services can help you find the right one.

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