Comprehensive guide to choosing and paying for care - Home support - Care Homes - Specialist Care - Useful contacts...
Living in a care home can be very costly. Although some people are able to pay their own fees, many need financial support to meet the cost of their care. This explains the system of funding for peopl...
Living in a care home can be very costly. Although some people are able to pay their own fees, many need financial support to meet the cost of their care. This explains the system of funding for peopl...
Living in a care home can be very costly. Although some people are able to pay their own fees, many need financial support to meet the cost of their care. This explains the system of funding for peopl...
This factsheet explains your right to choose the care home you move into, and what local authorities should agree to pay in England. It explains third party top-up agreements, where a preferred home i...
Moving into a care home is a big step. It is important that you move into a care home which meets all of your needs and is where you want to live.
This factsheet explains your right to choose the car...
This factsheet explains your right to choose the care home you move into, and what local authorities should agree to pay in Wales. It explains third party top-up agreements, where a preferred home is ...
This guide is intended to be an introduction to choosing, living in and funding a care home. The financial and legal information contained within this guide is
based on our understanding of the law a...
This factsheet gives information about the structure of the community care system, who provides services and the definition of some of the words and phrases you might come across to help you understan...
It describes what NHS Continuing Care is, entitlement, assessment, and what can be done if you don't agree with the outcome of the assessment...
This guide has been developed to help clarify who may or may not be eligible for NHS continuing healthcare. It attempts to draw a distinction between health and social care, and focuses on health need...
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The comprehensive guide to choosing and paying for care - Home support - Care homes - Specialist care - Useful contacts...
Comprehensive information and advice on choosing and paying for your care and support....
One in a series of publications by JRF; this one brings together a series of discussions of an advisory group established by JRF to steer its ongoing work on care funding....
Having spent many years living together it can be a very difficult, emotional and
worrying time when one or both members of a couple need to move into a care
home. This factsheet aims to clarify exa...
According to the Government, almost 40% of older people in care homes pay
for their own care and many of these do so from the proceeds of their former
homes. There are circumstances where a propert...
"Can my parents give away their home to avoid it being caught in the means test for care?"
This factsheet aims to clarify exactly how local authorities regard the gifting of assets in the financial a...
When asked most older people would prefer to remain in their own homes if
they needed care and indeed, for some time now, it has been government policy to encourage and enable this to happen.
This f...
Helping you to understand when the NHS will help fund nursing care in a care home, whether through an NHS Nursing Care Contribution or NHS Continuing Healthcare, and how to challenge NHS decisions....