Useful Information

Digital Television switchover support for older people

All television in the UK will be transmitted in digital format once the "Digital switchover" is complete in 2012. To find out more about help available to older people, please visit:

www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/helpscheme/hs_home.html

Older People and Climate Change

Please click on the links below for information relevant to older people and climate change.

A policy brief on older people in a changing climate can be found at:

http://www.climatetalk.org.uk/

BBC Radio 4 recently aired a Costing the Earth programme dedicated to this subject ? which included some interesting and forthright views from older people. To listen again to this programme click on:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k8fdz/Costing_the_Earth_11_05_2009/

For an outline of how older people are (still) making ends meet by re-using and recycling, mending and fixing things and growing their own. You knew it would come back into fashion one day, didn't you?!

http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/post-war-recession-release-110509.asp

Warm Front Information

http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/ACE-HTA-warmfront-response-240409.asp