Golden Age
General Golden Age Enquiries
Contact Jean Moden
Tel:- 01354 654321
email:- jmoden@fenland.gov.uk
Golden Age Events:
The Golden Age Team regularly visits the four Fenland @ your service shops to give advice and information. There is also an opportunity to undertake a free benefits health check with the 'Fenland Ferret' and also a free blood pressure check at the event listed below.
The next Golden Age Event will be held at the One Stop Shop in March on Monday 26 March 2012 from 9am until 2.30pm please come along to see if we help you.
Golden Age Fairs
A Golden Age Fair has been arranged for Thursday 17 May 2012 at the Fridaybridge Village Hall, Maltmas Drove from 4.30pm until 7pm.
Golden Age Fairs bring services and information for the over 60s to Fenland villages. You will find a broad cross-section of services including the police and fire services, Age Concern, CAB, Alzheimer's Society, St John Ambulance, energy advice, benefits information, sport for the over 60s and many more. Click on the link above to find out more about Golden Age Fairs. We hope to run our next Golden Age Fair in the Spring.
The Golden Age Team
Contact the Golden Age Team if you would like to find out more information about the Golden Age Team and the services it offers, or, if you are a service who would like to add information on to the site, please email: jmoden@fenland.gov.uk or telephone: 01354 654321.
Services and information for the over 60s
Our dedicated Golden Age Team is committed to improving services and information for the over 60s in Fenland.
We bring a range of services to Fenland's villages, through our Golden Age Fairs and regularly visit the Market Towns with Golden Age Events through our Fenland @ your service shops in Chatteris, March, Whittlesey and Wisbech.
We also work in partnership with a number of Golden Age Partner Organisations who are dedicated to providing services and information to the over 60s.
Two new partners have joined - LINK (Local Involvement Network) and Office of Fair Trading. Please see their details under the Golden Age Partners link above.
Please see below for various information and advice from some of our partners:
NHS Cambridgeshire - Cross Roads Care - GP Carers Prescription Service
Are you caring for someone? A carer spends a significant proportion of their life providing unpaid support to family or potentially friends. This could be caring for a relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or substance misuse problems.
Would you like to know?
Your rights; about benefits; what is available to support you; what is available to support the person you care for?
Carers Prescription is FREE.
How to get a prescription: see your doctor, briefly explain your circumstances. Your doctor will write the prescription and they will make sure they record you are a carer, so they can support you appropriately in the future. You can take the prescription away and contact Crossroads Care Cambridgeshire (contact details below) within 28 days. They will respond quickly and provide the information service and agreed break if you choose, without any charge to you.
For more information telephone: 01480499055 or email: nhs@crossroadscarecambridgeshire.org.uk
or visit the web site: www.crossroadscarecambridgeshire.org.uk or go along to one of the Carers Group meetings at The Olde Griffin Hotel, High Street, March, PE15 9JS. The dates are: 7 February; 6 March; 3 April; 1 May; 12 June; 3 July; 7 August.
Re-ablement - being independent following an operation or illness
If you or someone you care for requires social care support following an illness or operation, this would traditionally have been provided by a care assistant providing direct care to the person in need. Since September 2010 a new service, re-ablement, has been providing support to enable older people who have poor physical or mental health following illness or an operation to live in their own homes.
Re-ablement programmes can last for as little as a few days and generally do not exceed six weeks. The ethos of re-ablement is to encourage people to do things for themselves rather than having things done for them. There is no charge to the individual as long as they are participating in the programme.
Re-ablement is now being offered to a wider client group including new service users with a physical disability and new occupational therapy referrals. Future development of the service will look at assisting older people who already have a care package but due to illness or physical issues may now require a higher level of support.
You can find out more about re-ablement at www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/social
Postal scam... The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a premium rate number).
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize. If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.
For more information, see the Crime Stoppers website: http://www.crimestoppersuk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent crime/scams/postal-delivery-scam
Advice from Trading Standards - Warranties and Guarantees:
When you buy goods, whether on their own (like a washing machine) or as part of a larger piece of work (such as a new bathroom installation), by law those goods must be of "satisfactory quality" and be "fit for their purpose". They must be of a standard that a person would expect, bearing in mind the price paid, and be free from minor defects, be as described, and last a reasonable length of time for a product of that type. So if, for instance, the normal life of a washing machine is 5 years and yours stops working after two years due to a defect, you may be able to claim for a repair or replacement from the business you bought it from. This is the case regardless of whether you bought a warranty or guarantee. So consider carefully whether a warranty gives you anything extra.
