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Older people

Support services to help you live independently and information on residential and nursing care.

Adult placement schemes

Adult Placement Schemes provide flexible daytime services and overnight care for adults. Care is provided by ordinary people and families who have been very carefully selected, approved and trained to provide short breaks in their own homes or in your home. These people are known as Adult Placement Carers.

Advocacy

If you find it difficult to speak to professionals and organisations, there are local groups who may be able to support you.

Combined sight and hearing loss

Information and services available for those who have both sight and hearing impairments.

Community care

Information about community care in Calderdale.

Direct payments

The Direct Payments Scheme is a way for people to get Community Care Services.

Extra care housing

This is housing that offers older people, who are frail or disabled, their own home - together with the help they need to stay independent.

Hearing impairment

Social Services provides a service to children, young people and adults with hearing impairments who live in Calderdale.

Help in your own home

Services are available for older people or adults with physical disabilities, enabling them to live as independently as possible in their own home. Find out more here.

Help leaving hospital

While you are in hospital social workers can advise on services which can support you when you leave hospital.

Supporting People

Calderdale Supporting people is aimed at people in the local community who need housing-related support and help to pay for it.

Visual impairment

Services can be provided to children, young people and adults with a visual impairment who live in Calderdale. Our aim is to enable them to maintain or improve their level of independence.

Wills and testaments

If you have a possession you wish to leave to a friend or relative it is essential that you make a will.