Services
Over 1,500 volunteers, and a small number of paid staff, help the charity to offer a range of services across the UK and Ireland.
Services include:
• An advice line
• A range of guides and factsheets provide advice on the most common issues faced by older people, their families and carers
• An information booklet and searchable online guide, Wise Guide, life-improving advice for over-65s
• One-to-one volunteer befriending provides regular face-to-face or telephone support
• Live Wires, a telephone friendship service
• Practical support such as mobility aids and, in some cases, even emergency grants for some older people on very low incomes.
Read more about this topic: Independent Age
Famous quotes containing the word services:
“True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)