Housing and care related resources

This section contains an a-z listing of all resouces stored in the HousingCare.Org library.

Resources beginning with L

• Language Line website
  Organisation that provides a translation service and a 24 hour interpreting service to public sector organisations
• Learn more about Asthma
  Advice & information about asthma, the symptoms, treatment, alleviation of symptoms, keeping healthy, & helpful foods.
• Learn More about Cystitis
  Information about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & prevention of cystitis
• Learn more about Diabetes
  Advice & information about Diabetes, the symptoms, treatment, prevention of complications, diet, and travel.
• Learning in Later Life
  Information on the benefits of learning, overcoming the obstacles, the range of opportunities, and how to find information about learning opportunities
• Learning in Later Life - moving into 2006
  Briefing paper that outlines the issues around learning provision for older people
• Learning to Listen
  A report about involving service users in the development and delivery of home improvement agency and related services.
• LEASE website
  Wesite of the Leasehold Advisory Service, an independent advice agency, which provides free advice to leaseholders, landlords, professional advisers etc about the law affecting residential leaseholders
• Least-use Assistive Technology in Dementia Care - Housing LIN Case Study no.3
  Example of an extra care housing facility for older people with dementia, that based on a philosophy of promoting and maximising independence.
• Ledbury Community Health and Care Centre
  Case Study 35 describes the development of the Centre and identifies some lessons to be drawn from experience to date
• Legal Action Group website
  website of LAG, a national charity that campaigns for equal access to justice. It includes a section on housing law. Note : LAGdoes not provide housing advice
• Legal Arrangements for Managing Financial Affairs
  A guide to legal arrangments such as power of Attorney, appointees, trusts etc. It briefly outlines the various methods of administration available and the procedures involved
• Legal Arrangements for Managing Your Finances
  Outlines the various methods of administration available and the procedures involved when someone needs help with the collection of benefits and/or the management of their financial affairs.
• Leisure & Learning
  Advice and information on lifelong learning, computers & the internet, research, outdoors (gardening, walking etc), social life, arts & entertainment, sports, reminiscence, volunteering & shopping.
• Leisure Ideas
  Ideas to help you enjoy and make the most of your retirement. Even if you can't find anything in it that you'd like to do, it might give you some ideas for other activities you'd like to get involved in.
• Letting go without giving up: continuing to care for the person with dementia
  This booklet is aimed at carers who want to continue their involvement in the lives of the people they have cared for, even if they are no longer responsible for their day-to-day physical care needs.
• Life Long Learning
  Newsletter containing articles promoting the need for life long learning opportunities.
• Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods - A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society
  This strategy, giving older people greater choice, sets out the government’s vision for meeting the growing housing demands of an ageing population and ways to meet the changing lifestyle needs and aspirations of current and future generations of older people.
• Linking the Evidence-base to Outcomes: a consultation study for Essex County Council's Older Persons Housing Strategy
  This study provides an example of how key data on the household characteristics of older people can inform and underpin local planning strategies and documents such as Housing Strategies for Older People, Housing Market Assessments, Suppporting People Strategies, and applications for sheltered housing funding pots.
• Lipreading & Lipspeaking
  Explanation about learning to lipread, tips to help lipread & make it easier, joining a Lipreading class or learning at home. What is a Lipspeaker, when to use one, finding one, booking and paying for one, and confidentiality
• Listening Equipment to Help You in Everyday Situations
  Description of listening equipment, accessories for it, cordless and infrared listening equipment, and using listening equipment in difficult situations.
• Living Alone
  Explanation of how someone with dementia who lives alone can be helped by family, friends, and professionals
• Living Alone Safely
  Advice on concerns with security, safety and emergencies, difficulties with managing, looking after oneself and getting around, keeping warm in winter and living on a single income.
• Living Alone with Parkinsons
  Advice and information to help people living alone with Parkinsons Disease. It includes practical aids, domestic services, financial matters, safety issues, practical tips, & emotional and psychological issues
• Living at Hartrigg Oaks : residents views of the UK's first continuing care retirement community
  This report draws on the experience of the residents, including their reasons for moving there, the location, community, amenities, satisfaction etc.
• Living on the Edge
  Enabling older owner occupiers with moderate learning disabilities to live independently
• Living Well with Dementia - A National Dementia Strategy
  The aim of the strategy is to ensure that significant imporvements are made to dementia services across three key areas: improved awareness, earlier diagnosis and intervention, and a higher quality of care
• Living Well with Dementia - A National Dementia Strategy - Accessible Summary
  Summary, accessible version of the full-length National Dementia Strategy, about the Government's plans for improving health and social care services in England for everyone with dementia and their carers
• Living with osteoarthritis
  comprehensive information and advice for people who have osteoarthritis, to help them understand the diagnosis, potential treatment, and to help them cope with daily living
• Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Information about rheumatoid arthritis and different approaches to tackling the condition.
• Living with someone who has a gradual hearing loss
  How to identify if your partners hearing is getting worse, what it means for you and your partner if there is a hearing loss, hearing aids, tips for effective communication, ways to help you look after yourself, Benefits and equipment
• Local Authority Assessment for Community Care Services
  Aims to help older people find out how local authorities may assess their needs for, and decide to offer, community care services and describes the process of financial assessment that the local authority might use.
• Local Authority Assessment for Community Care Services
  Aims to help older people find out how local authorities may assess their needs for, and decide to offer, community care services and describes the process of financial assessment that the local authority might use.
• Local Authority Charging Procedures for Care Homes
  Information about who is eligible for funding of a care home in Wales, how to get help, what will happen, who pays, and the financial testing that applies.
• Local Authority Charging Procedures for Care Homes
  Information on the financial help that may be available from the local authority for older people needing care in a care home.
• Local Authority Charging Procedures for Care Homes
  Information on the financial help that may be available from the local authority for older people needing care in a care home.
• London Telecare
  London Telecare is the organisation representing the Telecare Services operated by most of London's 32 boroughs. It is dedicated to advertising these services across London and the Home Counties, using a combination of posters, leaflets and exhibition materials.It operates a free Helpline for people who want to find local services in London
• Looking for Rented Housing
  Information for those considering moving into rented accommodation. Discusses subjects such as applying for council and housing association housing, private renting, sheltered housing, extra care sheltered housing, and housing for disabled people.
• Looking for Rented Housing
  Information for those considering moving into rented accommodation. Discusses subjects such as applying for council and housing association housing, private renting, sheltered housing, extra care sheltered housing, and housing for disabled people.
• Losing your hearing as you get older
  Why many people become hard of hearing as they get older, signs of hearing loss, what to do if you think you have a hearing loss, and help you can get for your hearing loss
• Losing your Home
  Information for people who have nowhere to live, or who are facing homelessness. It explains the role of the Council, where to go if you need somewhere to stay urgently, and what can be done if a landlord wants to evict you or is harrassing you.