Housing and care related resources

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

Resources beginning with Y

• You and your money
  Describes how the Financial watchdog (FSA) can help consumers. The role of the FSA
• Your benefits. Your rights
  Overview of befits and concessions, including pension credit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax benefit, healp with fuel and health costs, disability benefits etc.
• Your Guide to Private Dentistry : questions to ask
  Information and advice about private dentistry. Covers finding a dentist, considering treatment options, choosing payment options, complaints and changing a dentist
• Your Guide to Winter Fuel Payments 2006-07
  A guide to the government payments to help with the costs of keeping warm in winter. It includes information about other age related payments
• Your Health Services : where to start
  Explains what the different primary health care services are (eg GP's) and information about how to access them and find out about local services
• Your Home
  This webpage describes housing association/Registered Social (RSL) Landlords, and provides explanation of how to become an RSL tenant or home owner through Shared Ownership, Homebuy Scheme, Right to Acquire Scheme & Voluntary Purchase Scheme. Information is also available on how to contact local RSLs, and make complaints.
• Your home & arthritis
  Information about the types of adaptations & equipment that can help people with arthritis to manage daily living in their home
• Your NHS : Advice, Support and having your say
  Summary of what the following can do :- Patient Advice & Liaison Services, Independent Complaints Advocacy Service, Patient & Public Involvement Forums
• Your right to buy your home
  Information for council and housing association tenants about their right to purchase their home. This includes eligibility criteria, costs involved, and exceptions to the right to buy.
• Your rights as a council tenant The council tenant's charter
  This describes the rights and responsibilities of a council tenant, how people can move home, buy their home, and how tenants can become involved in improving the quality of the service for tenants
• Your Rights at Work
  This factsheet is aimed at people aged 50 years and over. It covers employment status, discrimination, terms and conditions of employment, dismissal, redundancy, retirement, and disputes at work
• Your Safety : Preventing accidents in your home
  Most of us feel pretty safe in our homes.Yet more accidents happen at home than anywhere else.This leaflet is about the simple things you can do to make
  your home and garden safer.
• Your security : Personal safety at home and in the street
  Many of us are anxious about crime. But the fact is that older people are less likely to be attacked or robbed than people in any other age group.A crime can often be avoided by taking a few simple precautions.This leaflet explains steps you can take to make you feel more secure both at home and when you’re out and about.
• You're never too old to hurt
  What elder abuse is, who abuses, where it happens, what Elder Abuse Response (freephone Mon-Fri) is, who operates it, who should use it and how to contact