Information guides and factsheets
Our information guides are short and easy to digest and provide an overview of the relevant topic. Our factsheets provide much more in-depth information.
If you need information and advice, or you would like to request paper copies of any of our information guides and factsheets, you can call our advice line on 0300 303 44 98 (charged at local rate) to talk to someone or email us at advice@agecymru.org.uk
Cost of living information
A number of our resources have information relevant to the current pressures around the cost of living and energy prices. However, a summary of the main schemes and assistance available can be found on our ‘cost of living’ page.
- Age Cymru Advice: How can we help? (PDF, 61 KB)
- IG01: Staying safe (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG02: LGBT+: Navigating later life (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG03: When someone dies (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG05: Avoiding scams (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG06: Care homes (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG07: Your hospital stay (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG08: Housing options (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG10: Useful contacts - information and advice directory (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG13: Advice for carers (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG14: Staying steady (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG15: Bladder and bowel problems (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG17: Adapting your home (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG21: Powers of attorney (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG23: Getting help at home (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG24: Healthy living – looking after yourself physically and mentally (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG30: Save energy, pay less (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG31: Wills and estate planning (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG32: Bereavement (PDF, 3 MB)
- IG44: In the driving seat (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG45: Looking after your money (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG47: Caring for someone with dementia (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG48: Living with dementia (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG49: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG50: Pension Credit (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG51: Thinking about end of life (PDF, 4 MB)
- IG52: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 1 MB)
- L53w: More money in your pocket: Claiming the right benefits for you (PDF, 770 KB)
- IG53: State Pension (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG54: Council Tax Reduction (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG55: At home with dementia: Tips for making your home dementia friendly (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG56: Your mind matters (PDF, 2 MB)
- L57w: Winter wrapped up (PDF, 2 MB)
- IG57: Getting help with debt (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG58: Universal Credit (PDF, 1 MB)
- IG64: Feeling lonely? (PDF, 4 MB)
- IL1: Staying cool in a heatwave (PDF, 238 KB)
- IL6: Equity release (PDF, 747 KB)
- IL8: How to be an executor (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 1w: Help with heating costs in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 2: Buying retirement housing (PDF, 338 KB)
- Factsheet 5w: Dental care - NHS and private treatment in Wales (PDF, 875 KB)
- Factsheet 6w: Finding help at home (PDF, 930 KB)
- Factsheet 7: Making a will (PDF, 263 KB)
- Factsheet 8w: Community landlord housing in Wales – local authority or housing association homes (PDF, 834 KB)
- Factsheet 9w: Housing in Wales – anti-social behaviour and other neighbourhood issues (PDF, 790 KB)
- Factsheet 10w: Paying for a permanent care home placement in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 12: Planning your retirement - money and tax (PDF, 405 KB)
- Factsheet 14: Dealing with an estate (PDF, 494 KB)
- Factsheet 16: Trans issues and later life (PDF, 415 KB)
- Factsheet 17: Housing Benefit (PDF, 411 KB)
- Factsheet 19: State Pension (PDF, 400 KB)
- Factsheet 20w: NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 21w: Council Tax in Wales – information about the tax and help you might get towards your bill (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 22: Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf (PDF, 431 KB)
- Factsheet 24w: Direct payments for social care services in Wales (PDF, 1011 KB)
- Factsheet 25: Returning from abroad (PDF, 363 KB)
- Factsheet 27: Planning for your funeral (PDF, 395 KB)
- Factsheet 29w: Finding care home accommodation in Wales (PDF, 1023 KB)
- Factsheet 34: Attendance Allowance (PDF, 357 KB)
- Factsheet 35w: Renting your home in Wales – rights or problems regarding your rent (PDF, 782 KB)
- Factsheet 37w: Hospital discharge arrangements for older people in Wales (PDF, 999 KB)
- Factsheet 38w: Treatment of property in the means test for permanent care home provision in Wales (PDF, 1006 KB)
- Factsheet 39w: Paying for a care home in Wales if you have a partner (PDF, 937 KB)
- Factsheet 40w: Deprivation of assets in the means test for care home provision in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 41w: Social care assessments for older people with care needs in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 42w: Disability equipment and home adaptations in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 43: Getting legal and financial advice (PDF, 503 KB)
- Factsheet 44w: Information on NHS services for older people in Wales (PDF, 933 KB)
- Factsheet 46w: Paying for care and support at home in Wales (PDF, 1013 KB)
- Factsheet 48: Pension Credit (PDF, 442 KB)
- Factsheet 49: Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision (PDF, 288 KB)
- Factsheet 55: Carer's Allowance (PDF, 319 KB)
- Factsheet 56: Benefits for people under State Pension age (PDF, 435 KB)
- Factsheet 58w: Paying for temporary care in a care home in Wales (PDF, 875 KB)
- Factsheet 59w: How to resolve problems and make a complaint about social care in Wales (PDF, 931 KB)
- Factsheet 60w: Choice of care home if the local authority is contributing towards your care fees (PDF, 944 KB)
- Factsheet 61w: Help with NHS health costs in Wales and services which are free for older people (PDF, 874 KB)
- Factsheet 62: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (PDF, 431 KB)
- Factsheet 63w: Finding private rented accommodation in Wales (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 64: Specialist housing for older people (PDF, 330 KB)
- Factsheet 65: Equity release (PDF, 316 KB)
- Factsheet 66w: Resolving problems and making a complaint about NHS care in Wales (PDF, 938 KB)
- Factsheet 67w: Home improvements and repairs for older people in Wales (PDF, 1004 KB)
- Factsheet 68w: Renting your home in Wales – rights if you are threatened with eviction (PDF, 970 KB)
- Factsheet 69: Water advice (PDF, 284 KB)
- Factsheet 71: Park homes (PDF, 357 KB)
- Factsheet 72: Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills (PDF, 323 KB)
- Factsheet 74: Challenging welfare benefit decisions (PDF, 345 KB)
- Factsheet 75: Dealing with debt (PDF, 393 KB)
- Factsheet 76w: Reablement, intermediate care and preventative services in Wales (PDF, 817 KB)
- Factsheet 78w: Safeguarding older people in Wales from abuse and neglect (PDF, 1 MB)
- Factsheet 79: Equality, discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PDF, 369 KB)
- Factsheet 82: Getting the best energy deal (PDF, 404 KB)
- Factsheet 87: Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance (PDF, 420 KB)
- Factsheet 89w: Dealing with homelessness in Wales (PDF, 973 KB)
- Factsheet 91: Pension freedom and benefits (PDF, 339 KB)
- Factsheet 92: Universal Credit (PDF, 490 KB)
