The Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC), Association of Retirement Housing Managers (ARHM) and the Advice, Information and Mediation Service (AIMS) collaborated on this booked published in May this year.

Its premise is that as people grow older their housing needs often change. The book guides the reader through the housing options available to older people and answers common questions about retirement housing including:

* making life easier if staying in your own home

* choices (the benefits - and possible downside - of retirement housing, what is available, resources needed)

* living in retirement housing (what it's like, scheme managers' role, legal rights)

* renting retirement housing (local council, housing association or private)

* leasehold retirement housing (management organisations - their tasks and charges, buying, moving and re-selling)

* legal aspects (how to complain, ombudsman services, your rights, lease 'jargon buster').

Complete with case studies and useful contacts, this book provides all the vital information needed to help people make an informed decision. It covers England only. To order, contact: