A - Z index

Use the alphabetical index of topics below and click on the link to take you to the relevant page on this website. These links will not open in a new window.

Care and support jargon buster

A

• Abuse
• Accessibility – out and about
• Activities and services – search for
• Adult learning, training courses
• Advocacy services
• Alarms – community and personal (telecare)
• Alcohol problems
• Armed Forces
• Autism / Asperger Syndrome

B

• Bathing
• Benefits
• Bereavement
• Blindness
• Blue badge disabled parking permits
• Bus passes and travel vouchers

C

• Care Act 2014
• Care funding
• Care homes – advice for carers, family and friends
• Care homes and nursing homes – search for
• Care homes – advice
• Carers – advice on residential care
• Carers - Breaks
• Carers – Financial assistance
• Carers – Moving and handling
• Carers' rights
• Carers – Support and advice
• Cinema
• Clubs – search for local clubs and groups
• Community support and services – search for
• Computers – help, courses
• Councils for Voluntary Service

D

• Day care
• Deafness
• Debt advice
• Death – registration, bereavement support
• Dementia
• Disabled facilities grants
• Disability registration cards (Hampshire County Council website)
• District and Borough Councils
• Domestic abuse
• Domestic help
• Dressing and undressing
• Drinking – alcohol problems
• Driving and parking
• Drug problems

E

• Eating – healthy eating, meals deliveries
• Emergency food
• Employing a personal assistant
• Employment and training
• End of life care and support
• Equipment – around the house and telecare
• Equipment - mobility
• Exercise
• Extra care housing

F

• Falls prevention
• Financial support and advice
• Fire safety
• Food banks
• Foot care
• Funding care

G - H

• Gardening
• Grants and short term advances
• Hampshire County Council
• Health and wellbeing advice
• Health checks
• Health services
• Hearing loss
• Holidays
• Home care agencies – buying help from
• Home care agencies – search for
• Hospital stays
• House and garden help
• Housing advice

I - L

• Internet – help, courses
• Lasting Power of Attorney
• Learning disabilities
• Learning opportunities
• Leisure activities
• Libraries
• Local activities and services – search for
• Loneliness - ways to combat

M - N

• Meals delivery
• Medicines
• Mental health
• Mobility equipment
• Money – paying for care
• Money – financial advice and support
• Money - benefits
• NHS services

O - Q

• Occupational therapy
• Older people - services for
• Palliative care
• Parking – disabled
• Paying for care
• Pendant alarms and telecare
• Personal assistant – employing someone yourself
• Personal care
• Pet care
• Physical disabilities
• Powers of Attorney
• Protecting adults at risk

R - S

• Repairs
• Respite breaks for carers
• Safeguarding
• Scams and nuisance calls
• Security - household
• Shopmobility schemes
• Shopping
• Sight loss
• Sitting services
• Smoking
• Social isolation
• Sport
• Suicide prevention

T

• Tax help
• Telecare
• Terminal illness – care and support
• Toilet – help using
• Training and employment
• Transport
• Travel – concessions, discounts and help
• Trigger Tool E-learning

U - Z

• Utility supplies and household emergencies
• Veterans
• Volunteering
• Walking aids
• Warmth – keeping warm
• Washing
• Weight management
• Welfare assistance
• Wheelchair – safety when travelling
• Wheelchairs