As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find funding for home adaptations for your parent.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open GOV.UK, your local council website and the NHS, then record your parent's council area, housing tenure, adaptation needed, relevant disability or mobility difficulty, benefits and any immediate risk.
   2. Paste those facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to separate confirmed routes from routes requiring eligibility confirmation.
   3. Open every official source link in the response and check that the scheme applies to your council area, housing situation and type of adaptation.
   4. Ask the council's adult social care or housing team the drafted questions, and ask whether an occupational therapy assessment or formal needs assessment is required.
   5. Send the drafted message to the council or landlord with only the information they need, then save the reply, documents requested and any stated deadline.
   6. Compare the council's answer with the chatbot's shortlist and remove any route the council or official source does not confirm before applying.

   Prompt

   Help me find current UK funding or financial help for home adaptations for my parent. Use only information that can be checked on GOV.UK, the NHS, or the relevant local council website, and give the direct source link for every route you mention. If you cannot browse, say so and tell me exactly what I should search for instead. Do not guess eligibility, funding amounts, deadlines or local scheme names.
   
   Details:
   - Parent's local authority: [council name or postcode]
   - Adaptation needed: [describe the change and the safety or daily-living problem]
   - Parent's age: [age]
   - Disability, illness or mobility difficulty: [brief description]
   - Lives in: [owned home, private rented home, housing association or council home]
   - Household income and relevant benefits: [brief description, or unknown]
   - Who may pay for the work: [parent, landlord, council or unknown]
   - Urgency and any immediate risk: [brief description]
   
   Return:
   1. A table of possible routes, including the organisation, what it may help with, the evidence usually requested, the official source link and the next contact action.
   2. Separate routes that are confirmed from routes that need eligibility confirmation.
   3. The exact questions I should ask the council, landlord or relevant organisation.
   4. A short message I can send to the council's adult social care or housing team.
   5. A list of missing facts that would change the answer.
   Do not provide a diagnosis or professional advice. Tell me to contact NHS 111 for urgent or worrying health symptoms, and identify when a welfare rights adviser, occupational therapist or solicitor should be involved.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.