Services in Islington

Age UK provide information and support on financial, legal, health and wellbeing for older people. They support via their advice line, befriending service and day centres.

The Planning for the Future service is a free, community-based service for Islington residents planning their future. It offers one-to-one support for:

• setting up a Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA), a simple way of ensuring control over your health and financial decisions in future
• making an advance care plan using the using the Universal Care Plan service from the NHS which records your wishes and treatment needs, and communicates them to urgent care services in the event of an emergency., so that your personal, health care and treatment wishes are known.

There is a legal requirement that a death be registered within five working days. It is important to let the Register Office know if the funeral is to be held within 24 hours. The person registering the death must be able to provide some basic details of the person who has died. Please take the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death to the Register Office. It is also helpful to take the person’s birth and marriage certificates, passport or NHS Medical Card, although they are not essential.

Use the web link above to find your local register office by entering your postcode.

There are 2 types of lasting power of attorney

• One covering property and finances

• Another for health and care decisions

Maggie's has a network of centres in many locations throughout the UK. It provides free information about cancer, financial benefts and offers emotional and social support to people with cancer, as well as their family, and friends.