Later Life Partnership NEL

Carelink joined forces with two older people charities within North East Lincolnshire – AgeUK and Friendship at Home - to form the Later Life Partnership. The aim of coming together is to share our resources, skills and knowledge of older people and the local landscape and use this to reach more older people who would benefit from local help and support. By reaching more older people, we can become aware of emerging needs and concerns in the community and work with the local authority and others to channel support where it is needed.  

Our first joint venture was supporting AgeUK to expand their meal delivery service whilst at the same time promoting Friendship at Home’s tablet scheme. Friendship have been given funding by the Lottery and local authority to provide tablets with WIFI to older people to help them keep in touch with groups, services and family. We all recognise this can be a great help for those people unable to get out due to COVID or who are housebound.  Using new technology can be confusing though and by coming together, we can offer more resource to enable staff to spend more time going through how to use it, revisiting to ensure people get the hang of it.  

Our community engagement worker Janet went out delivering meals, talking about the scheme and going back to help older people learn how to use the tablets. 

The Late Life Partnership have arranged two Advice days in 2023 the last one was in October at Cleethorpes Memorial Centre. We invited many local organisations across the area to promote their services to help vulnerable people across North East Lincolnshire from Meal Delivery Services to Travel Companies. The day was a great success Big Local and Hammond Productions kindly filmed the event. Keep an eye out for future events.  

Million Pound Challenge

IN NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE

Between us as part of the Later Life Partnership, we are aiming to ensure that all people over the age of 60

are receiving all of their full benefit entitlements. 

Do you know that a high percentage of older people living within North East Lincolnshire are not claiming their full entitlements to Attendance Allowance, Council Tax and Housing Costs and Pension Credits?

Are you one of them? Don't be!

Why don't you have a full benefit entitlement check done with a trained advisor to check you are getting everything you are entitled to...... it doesn't take long.

Do not miss out....especially with the current rising costs of living and fuel bills. Give us a call today on 01472 312312 to arrange for an advisor to call you back to discuss it further. It really is as easy as that.