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Over 50s care and community contacts

Community organisations that support over 50s and their carers

Action on Elder Abuse

Contact details for Action on elder abuse, which provides information, advice and support to victims and others who are concerned about or have witnessed abuse.

Age Concern

Contact details for Age Concern, which supports people over 50, provides day care, information, age discrimination and pensions.

Age Concern Cymru

Contact details for Age Concern in Wales, which supports people over 50, provides day care, information, age discrimination and pensions.

Age Concern Scotland

Contact details for Age Concern Scotland, which supports people over 50, provides day care, information, age discrimination and pensions.

Commission for Social Care Inspection

Contact details for the Commission for Social Care Inspection.

Community Legal Service

Contact details for Community Legal Service Direct, an organisation which is the first port of call for legal help and information in England and Wales.

Help the Aged SeniorLine

Contact details for Help the Aged, an organisation which provides over 50s with free advice leaflets and a welfare rights advice line.

Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland)

Contact details for the Office of the Public Guardian.

Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA)

Contact details for the POVA, run by the Department of Health, which compiles a list of people who are unsuitable to work in social care settings.

Public Guardianship Office

Contact details for the Public Guardianship Office, an organisation which handles the financial affairs of someone mentally incapacitated through illness or injury.

WRVS

Contact details for WRVS, a charity that supports people in need who might otherwise feel lonely and isolated.

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