28 Great George Street
Leeds LS1 3DL
The Leeds Ageing Without Children group is hosting an information session about what happens when people being discharged from hospital need support, but don’t have it easily available.
About the event
People coming home from hospital, or who start to need help with personal care, often rely on their family for support and advocacy to stay independent. Key questions that worry people ageing without children are:
- ‘Who will help me when I’m no longer able to help myself?
- ‘What if I need help at home?’
This information session about what happens when people need that kind of support but don’t have it easily available and will include presentations from Leeds City Council Adult Social Care and the Red Cross’s Home from Hospital service. There will also be an opportunity share what you want from the Leeds Ageing Without Children group.
Background
One in five people over 50 in the UK don’t have any children and by 2030 there will be 2 million people over 65 without children. In Leeds there are 232,120 people over 50 which means there are likely to be approximately 46,000 people without children.
Ageing Without Children (AWOC) is a UK based organisation aimed at people over the age of 50 without children. This includes people who are without children in later life by choice, circumstance, infertility, bereavement, estrangement, distance or any other reason.