# source/domain-registers/later-life.v1.yaml

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    register_version: life-course-domain-register.v1
    pack_id: pack-8-mobility-later-life-and-death
    domain: later-life
    title: Later life
    status: population_complete
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    link_receipts: evaluation/link-receipts/pack-8-mobility-later-life-death-2026-08-08
    acquisition:
      mode: linked_reference_only
      snapshots_acquired: false
      source_response_bodies_retained: false
      publication_allowed: false
      rights_policy: link_and_summarize_source_family_decisions_recorded
    _source_defaults: &source_defaults
      access_method: public_html
      version_model: live_service_guidance
      update_cadence: check_before_each_use
      rights_basis: linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded
      observed_at: "2026-08-08"
      checksum: not_applicable_no_snapshot
    _family_defaults: &family_defaults
      primary_jurisdictions: [England]
      specialist_review: required
    route_sources:
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: later-life-scotland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Scotland
        title: Benefits in Scotland
        owner: Scottish Government
        authority_role: scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff
        resource: https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits
        coverage: Routes people to current Scottish benefit, disability and older-person support information.
        exclusions: Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: later-life-wales-handoff
        jurisdiction: Wales
        title: Social care in Wales
        owner: Welsh Government
        authority_role: wales_later_life_care_handoff
        resource: https://www.gov.wales/social-care
        coverage: Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy, support and service information.
        exclusions: Does not assess needs, identify a local service, decide funding or cover every pension and legal-planning route.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: later-life-northern-ireland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
        title: Pensions and retirement planning
        owner: Northern Ireland Executive
        authority_role: northern_ireland_retirement_handoff
        resource: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning
        coverage: Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.
        exclusions: Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs.
    families:
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]
        id: get-state-pension-forecast
        title: Get a State Pension forecast
        aliases: [check future State Pension, pension forecast online, expected State Pension]
        description: Use the official forecast service, review the contribution record and follow its correction or voluntary-contribution handoffs where relevant.
        situations: [A person wants an estimate of their future UK State Pension and qualifying record.]
        user_needs: [Understand that a forecast is not a guarantee and may require record correction or advice.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-state-pension-forecast-primary
          title: Check your State Pension forecast
          owner: Department for Work and Pensions
          authority_role: uk_state_pension_forecast
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension
          coverage: Provides the current forecast route and National Insurance record handoffs.
          exclusions: Does not guarantee a future amount, give financial advice or resolve every record issue.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]
        id: claim-state-pension
        title: Claim State Pension
        aliases: [start State Pension, defer pension claim, claim retirement pension]
        description: Check invitation and claim timing, use the applicable online, telephone or postal route and retain the decision and payment information.
        situations: [A person is approaching or has passed State Pension age and wants to claim.]
        user_needs: [Use the current claim route without the bundle calculating age, amount, deferral or tax.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: claim-state-pension-primary
          title: Get your State Pension
          owner: Department for Work and Pensions
          authority_role: uk_state_pension_claim
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension
          coverage: Explains current UK State Pension claim, deferral and payment routes.
          exclusions: Does not calculate entitlement, choose a claim date, give tax advice or decide an appeal.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales]
        id: claim-pension-credit
        title: Claim Pension Credit
        aliases: [top up retirement income, guarantee credit, pensioner income benefit]
        description: Check the current qualifying framework and use the claim route with income, savings, housing and partner information requested by the authority.
        situations: [A person over the qualifying age has a low retirement income and wants to explore Pension Credit.]
        user_needs: [Reach the official calculation and decision process without a local entitlement result.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: claim-pension-credit-primary
          title: Pension Credit
          owner: Department for Work and Pensions
          authority_role: great_britain_pension_credit
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit
          coverage: Routes Great Britain claimants to current Pension Credit conditions, calculation and claim services.
          exclusions: Does not cover the Northern Ireland claim route, calculate entitlement or decide a challenge.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]
        id: manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement
        title: Manage a workplace pension in retirement
        aliases: [take workplace pension, retirement pension options, draw pension pot]
        description: Find each scheme, obtain its options and regulated guidance, understand tax and benefit effects and make decisions through the scheme provider.
        situations: [A person is approaching retirement or needs to use, transfer or trace workplace pension benefits.]
        user_needs: [Find scheme and guidance routes without an investment, transfer or withdrawal recommendation.]
        dependency: pension-scheme-and-fca-regulated-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement-primary
          title: Workplace pensions
          owner: Department for Work and Pensions
          authority_role: uk_workplace_pension_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions
          coverage: Introduces workplace pension participation, scheme and retirement-information routes.
          exclusions: Does not trace every scheme, recommend options, calculate tax or provide regulated financial advice.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: use-older-person-concessionary-travel
        title: Use older-person concessionary travel
        aliases: [older persons bus pass, free bus travel pension age, senior travel pass]
        description: Identify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.
        situations: [An older person wants to use or apply for concessionary public transport.]
        user_needs: [Find the correct local route without assuming one UK age, mode or validity rule.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary
          title: Apply for an older person's bus pass
          owner: Department for Transport
          authority_role: england_older_person_bus_pass_locator
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass
          coverage: Routes eligible England applicants to the responsible local concessionary bus-pass service.
          exclusions: Does not establish Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland schemes, decide eligibility or issue a pass.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales]
        id: claim-attendance-allowance
        title: Claim Attendance Allowance
        aliases: [benefit for care needs over pension age, attendance benefit, help with personal care]
        description: Use the current claim form and evidence route, describe the care or supervision needs and follow decision, revision or appeal steps.
        situations: [A person over State Pension age has a disability or health condition that creates care or supervision needs.]
        user_needs: [Reach the official benefit decision without the bundle assessing disability or entitlement.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: claim-attendance-allowance-primary
          title: Attendance Allowance
          owner: Department for Work and Pensions
          authority_role: great_britain_attendance_allowance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance
          coverage: Explains Great Britain conditions, claim, decision and challenge routes.
          exclusions: Does not cover the Northern Ireland claim route, assess care needs or calculate entitlement.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life
        title: Get a housing adaptation in later life
        aliases: [adapt home for older person, disabled facilities grant older person, home equipment in later life]
        description: Request the local assessment, identify housing and tenure responsibilities and use the funding, works and review route offered for the home.
        situations: [An older person needs changes or equipment to use their home safely or independently.]
        user_needs: [Coordinate care, housing, landlord and grant boundaries without promising an adaptation or amount.]
        dependency: assessed-adaptation-contractor-or-equipment-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life-primary
          title: Disabled Facilities Grants
          owner: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
          authority_role: england_wales_home_adaptation_grant
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants
          coverage: Introduces England and Wales local assessment and grant routes for eligible home adaptations.
          exclusions: Does not establish Scottish or Northern Ireland provision, assess need or guarantee funding or works.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-social-care-in-later-life
        title: Get social care in later life
        aliases: [older person care assessment, help at home in later life, residential care assessment]
        description: Ask the responsible local care authority for an assessment and follow its care planning, financial assessment, provider and review process.
        situations: [An older person may need help with daily living, safety, connection or residential care.]
        user_needs: [Find the territorial and local assessment route without a needs, capacity or funding decision from the bundle.]
        dependency: commissioned-or-registered-care-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-social-care-in-later-life-primary
          title: Getting a needs assessment
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_adult_social_care_assessment_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/help-from-social-services-and-charities/getting-a-needs-assessment/
          coverage: Explains England local-authority needs assessment and care-planning handoffs.
          exclusions: Does not establish devolved routes, assess need, decide capacity, calculate charges or recommend a provider.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-carer-support-in-later-life
        title: Get carer support in later life
        aliases: [support for older unpaid carer, carers assessment retirement, respite help for carer]
        description: Identify the unpaid caring role, request the applicable carer's assessment and use benefit, respite, health and emergency-planning routes.
        situations: [An older person provides unpaid care or is cared for by an unpaid family member or friend.]
        user_needs: [Keep the carer's own needs visible alongside the cared-for person's process.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary
          title: Support and benefits for carers
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_carer_support_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/support-and-benefits-for-carers/
          coverage: Routes England unpaid carers to assessments, benefits, breaks and practical support.
          exclusions: Does not establish devolved provision, decide eligibility, assess needs or arrange emergency care.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Wales]
        id: make-lasting-power-of-attorney
        title: Make a lasting power of attorney
        aliases: [appoint attorney for future, property and finance LPA, health and welfare LPA]
        description: Choose the applicable legal instrument and attorneys, complete and register it while the donor can make the decision and obtain advice for conflicts or complexity.
        situations: [A person wants trusted people to act if they later cannot make specified decisions.]
        user_needs: [Use the correct territorial legal route without a capacity, suitability or drafting decision from the bundle.]
        dependency: regulated-solicitor-or-legal-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary
          title: Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney
          owner: Office of the Public Guardian
          authority_role: england_wales_lasting_power_of_attorney
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney
          coverage: Routes England and Wales users through current lasting-power registration and use information.
          exclusions: Does not apply the Scottish or Northern Ireland instrument, assess capacity, choose attorneys or provide legal advice.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: make-advance-care-plan
        title: Make an advance care plan
        aliases: [plan future care wishes, advance decision treatment, end of life care plan]
        description: Discuss future wishes and clinical or legal instruments with the responsible health team and advisers, document them and ensure relevant people can find them.
        situations: [A person wants to plan care, treatment, communication or practical preferences for future serious illness or loss of capacity.]
        user_needs: [Separate preferences, clinical plans and legally binding instruments without drafting or treatment advice.]
        dependency: responsible-clinical-team-and-regulated-legal-adviser
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: make-advance-care-plan-primary
          title: Why plan ahead for end of life care?
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_advance_care_planning_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/end-of-life-care/planning-ahead/why-plan-ahead/
          coverage: Introduces England advance statements, advance decisions, powers of attorney and care-planning conversations.
          exclusions: Does not establish devolved law or practice, assess capacity, draft an instrument or make a clinical decision.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Wales]
        id: make-will
        title: Make a will
        aliases: [write a valid will, choose executor, update will]
        description: Identify the applicable succession law, record wishes and executors using the required formalities and obtain legal advice for complexity or vulnerability.
        situations: [A person wants to decide how their estate should be handled after death.]
        user_needs: [Reach current legal guidance without the bundle drafting, witnessing or validating a will.]
        dependency: regulated-solicitor-or-will-professional
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: make-will-primary
          title: Making a will
          owner: Ministry of Justice
          authority_role: england_wales_will_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/make-will
          coverage: Explains England and Wales will, signing, witness, storage and update boundaries.
          exclusions: Does not establish Scottish or Northern Ireland law, draft or validate a will or advise on tax and family provision.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care
        title: Access palliative or end-of-life care
        aliases: [palliative care support, hospice care, end of life NHS help]
        description: Contact the responsible clinical team for assessment and coordination of symptom, practical, emotional and family support, using urgent services when needed.
        situations: [A person has an advanced or life-limiting condition and may need palliative or end-of-life care.]
        user_needs: [Find current clinical and support routes without diagnosis, prognosis or treatment advice from the bundle.]
        dependency: commissioned-palliative-care-or-hospice-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary
          title: End of life care
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_end_of_life_care_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/
          coverage: Introduces England palliative and end-of-life care, planning and support routes.
          exclusions: Does not establish devolved provision, diagnose, predict prognosis, triage or recommend treatment or a provider.