• Continence Advisory Service
• Falls prevention
• Hearing loss
• Healthy ageing
• Keeping warm in winter
• Optical services
• A smile for life - mouth care
  
• Patient information about Whipps Cross University Hospital
• Discharge from hosptial
• Intermediate care
• Transitional care
• Residential care
• Deaths and bereavements
• Living with a terminal illness
• Planning for later life as a lesbian, gay man, bisexual or transgendered person
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual faith groups
• Adult protection
• Crime prevention
• Direct payments
• Helping you to get out and about
• Need help with shopping?
• Welfare Benefits

How to use this website

Waltham Forest Older People's collaborative website is a resource for older people, carers, the general public and those in the health and social care commnunity who provides information to older people in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The website hosts a lot of information, such as Healthy Ageing, Welfare Benefits, Falls Prevention, Discharge from Whipps Cross University Hospital, Intermediate Care, Transitional Care, Living with a Terminal Illness, keeping Warm in Winter, Hearing Loss, Assistance with Shopping and many more. You can read about the benefits and services offered to older people, and find out how to access these services.

Finding what you want

This website has been designed to make it easy for you to find what you want. The contents are divided into sections, each containing relevant information, and links are provided wherever possible to guide you to further information that may be useful. There are a number of ways of finding the information you want and are described below.

Navigation

Every 'page' on the website has a 'navigation bar' on the left-hand side. Clicking on any 'subject' in this navigation bar will take you to a page which describes what else is included in this section. You can go to another page by using the links that appear in the navigation bar or the links highlighted in the text itself.

Printer friendly

All pages on the website are printer friendly. If you would like to print information, all you need to do is to click on the Printer Friendly icon at the top of each page. The link will lead you to a printable page.

Email to a friend

If you find an interesting article on the website and you wish to send it to your friend, all you need to do is to click the "emailto a friend" icon on top of each web page. This will open your usual email programme with a link inside the message for you to send.