The Essential Guide to ageing well

Home Instead has launched its annual ‘Essential Guide to Ageing Well’. e guidebook has been developed through Home Instead’s years of experience in the home care industry in Ireland and around the world.

e Essential Guide to Ageing Well 2023 is a comprehensive resource for ageing in Ireland and covers a range of important topics to help people prepare and plan for the future now whether as older people, carers or family members.

Featuring contributions from Mary Butler TD, Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People; Professor Ian Robertson, Founding Director of the Global Brain Health Institute and author of How Con dence Works; and supported by Total Health Pharmacy and Haven Pharmacy, the guidebook is available free-of-charge to anyone interested in ageing well.

Home Instead publishes this Guidebook annually to support older people and their families navigate the ageing journey so that we as a society can keep our ageing loved ones safe and well while living independently in their own homes and communities for as long as possible.

It is a practical and engaging resource for everyone in the ageing care space with lots of information provided on the services and resourc- es that are available in the country; all of which support Home Instead’s mission “to enhance the lives of ageing adults and their families”. e Guidebook includes expert tips and advice on areas such as:

• Health and Wellbeing advice, including medi - and caring for the caregiver;

• Community Services, free and cost-e ective services including how to apply for the HSE’s Consumer Directed Home Support; health services, security, fuel, transport and training;

• Lifestyle advice, including tips on how to look after yourself, technology, travel, socialising and volunteering;

• Nutrition and Diet, including healthy eating advice and savvy shopping tips;

• Allowances and Entitlements, including what allowances are available and how to apply for them;

• Care Options, the importance of relationship-based care, including identifying and choosing the most appropriate care; and e book is being distributed in cities, towns and villages all over Ireland, through Home Instead’s national network of local o ces, as well as at Total Health and Haven Pharmacies nationwide. cation, vaccination, fall prevention, innovative trials available to support chronic health conditions, importance of social connection

• Financial and Legal information, including planning in advance to safeguard yourself in the future.

* e information is also available online at HomeInstead.ie/Guidebook2023