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Your care, your choice — Direct payments working for you
Corporate Author	Age Concern England - ACE
Publisher	Minamon Film (Producer), London, 2006
Pages	DVD (running time : 18 mins)
Source	Age Concern England, Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER. katharine.orellana@ace.org.uk http://www.ageconcern.org.uk
Keywords	Services ; Community care ; Social security benefits ; Usage [services].
Annotation	This DVD features older people in receipt of direct payments who feel that their lives have been enriched by being able to access the types of activities and support that they have chosen. It also shows how direct payment support services can help. This film is designed to be shown to groups, followed by a question and answer session led by a local expert from a Direct Payments Support Service - and supplemented by "A guide to receiving direct payments from your local council : a route to independent living", a free booklet from the Department of Health (DH) who gave a grant towards production of this DVD. (www.dh.gov.uk/publications). The DVD is available in different languages - English, Sylheti, Punjabi and Urdu. KJ
Accession Number	CPA-060907204 M
Classmark	I: PA: JH: QLD
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