Living well at home

Information and advice

It is important to us that you receive the right information at the right time to support: 

  • you to plan your care needs 
  • you to help plan the care needs for someone that you care for  
  • your needs as a carer 

You may be looking for information and advice to: 

  • think about longer-term care needs (planning for the future) 
  • manage an emerging situation to help you live well at home (becoming less steady when walking, for example) 
  • understand the services that are available to you when something has happened, and it is difficult for you to live well at home (you are no longer able to get out of bed by yourself, for example) 

Some information that you need will be about services and processes that are delivered nationally or regionally. Some will be about services and processes delivered in Bolton. There are lots of different parts to adult social care, but we want to make it as simple as possible for you to live well at home and understand how to access services when you need them.  

Our main information offer is on this website. This is so we can have a single place that members of the public and services that support you can go to when you need information.  

But we know that everyone's circumstances are different, and people will need information and advice: 

  • at different times (for example, points in their life or time of day) 
  • in different formats (for example, online, over the phone, in paper or translated) 

To help make this information accessible to you: 

  • we have accessibility tools on this website that can make text larger, can translate text, can read it out to you or can convert text so it is easier to read. Our accessibility pages help to explain how to use this 
  • we are working with community-based services (libraries and health services for example) so that they can support you to use this information  
  • our teams will talk you through information when you speak to them 

Key places to access information and advice in Bolton are: 

There are also a number of organisations nationally and in Bolton that offer information and advice. 

Bolton based care and support information and advice is available from:

More care and support information and advice providers can be found on our service directory.

Contact

01204 337860

Bolton Council
Town Hall
Victoria Square
Bolton
BL1 1RU