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Initial access point for the Adult Social Care Service, including Occupational Therapy, Sensory Needs and Older Peoples Outreach. Works with older people and vulnerable adults aged 18+. Appointments may be necessary to see a specialist worker.

Social work team. Provide information and signposting on social care services. Community care assessments of need for patients who require assessments, and discharge planning for social care.

Social work assessment for patients being discharged into the community from all the hospitals within the UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. For older people and people with physical disabilities.

National charity providing information, support, community services and products for older people and their families and carers. Share a building with Age UK Camden.

Provides support, advice, information, counselling, advocacy and befriending services (via Good Neighbour schemes), resource centres, volunteering opportunities, Direct Payments support, neighbourhood care, computer training, Bangladeshi elders groups, carers' support, dementia support, nailcutting service, internet shopping service, home service, services for older gay men, lesbians and…

Care Navigators are professionals who provide a free, impartial and confidential service to older people in Camden. They are based within the GP practices in Camden and have specialist knowledge of services available to you. They can talk to you about your needs and concerns…

Age UK Camden’s Computer Training project aims to provide a supportive environment for people to access the IT training suite, with trained volunteers on hand to help. If you are a confident computer user or have recently completed a course, you can use the computer…

Works very closely with Bangladeshi family carers. They provide a service offering a break from caring, time for themselves and on-going support to Bangladeshi/Asian family carers.

Provides information and advice on a wide range of issues relating to older people including: benefits and pensions, housing, health and social care, debt and money, help for carers and accessing local services. Outreach advice sessions and home visits available. Also administer a fund that can give small single grants to…

Good neighbour scheme for people in NW3. Volunteers visit and befriend people in their own homes and help with small tasks, such as reading aloud, accompanying people for walks etc. Volunteers are matched with people who fulfil the scheme's criteria.

Age UK Camden provides this service to help older people to take advantage of online shopping without haveing their own computer and without leaving their homes. The team will telephone you on a regular basis and order your shopping online for you. The only charge…

Providing short and long-term emotional support/counselling (for up to a year) to older people in Camden from black and minority ethnic groups and older people with early Dementia or Alzheimers Disease.

The skill, time and energy of our volunteers make a real difference to what we do, enhancing the quality and support we offer older people. Befriending, information and advice, escorting, dementia support, helping in our charity shop are just some of the roles.  Volunteering is a great way…

Takes out elderly people for a drive and tea once a month. Drivers, helpers and hosts, as well as guests, needed. There are 17 groups across London.

Ageing Better in Camden is a partnership of older people and Camden organisations working together to tackle social isolation and loneliness. For information about the services our delivery agencies offer, please visit www.ageingbetterincamden.org.uk You can get involved in the programme's Older People's Advisory Group which…

Local office for sheltered housing for Asian elders. Schemes at 4 Guilford Place and 52 Millman Street WC1. Parent organisation provides general needs housing and sheltered housing for Asian elders across London.

Voluntary organisation of older women in London. Discussion and campaigning. Performances for awareness raising of ageism and good practice, work with BME and Refugee women, Memory Club and Memory Club Roadshow.

This service is for Camden residents over 50 who need help to maximise their benefit income and to help them open up or re-establish a bank account or set up direct debts.

Drop-in advice Mon-Fri 10am-12 noon More detailed advice on welfare rights/pensions, housing, homelessness, racial harassment, health, business and legal issues by arrangement. Day care services for elderly and housebound people. Culturally appropriate lunch club Mon-Fri. Regular Age UK Camden older people's general advice sessions. Women's…

Aims to increase the community participation and social, political and economic integration of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women. The objective is to equip women with the knowledge and skills they need in order to tackle the barriers to community participation, employment and other…