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HOW MUCH WILL WE BE EXPECTED TO PAY FOR CARE IN OLD AGE?
Imagine the scenario…. You’ve been comfortably retired for 20 years, and then one day you receive a letter out of the blue asking you to pay £100,000. The reason? To help provide funds for the care you might need towards the end of your life. [...]
MORE PRESSURE ON NURSES, WHAT NEXT FOR SOCIAL CARE?
Now that Theresa May has lost her majority in parliament, one presumes that social care policy reforms will once again be conveniently shelved until another election comes around. Sir Andrew Dilnot first put forward his recommendations for the Funding of Care back in 2011, and [...]
HEADS YOU LOSE. TAILS YOU LOSE.
The problem with the Tory policy on care, laid out in their manifesto, is that the consequences simply don’t seem to have been properly thought through. Currently, unlike those living in care homes, people who receive care at home do not have the value of [...]
WHAT ON EARTH DOES PARAGUAY HAVE TO DO WITH BRITAIN’S ELDERLY HEALTHCARE PROBLEM?
It’s a sad fact that in the UK we spend less on health care as a percentage of GDP than Paraguay, Liberia, Moldova and Sierra Leone. And many other countries too, including most of Western Europe. (Source: World Bank) So, perhaps we shouldn’t be too [...]
IN CARE? – WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPECT HIGH STANDARDS
There has been much comment recently around what your care should include and what rights you, or your relative, have a right to expect. In some cases, there have been reports of people who complain, being barred from visiting the home to spend time with [...]
GUIDE TO FINDING A GOOD CARE HOME
Most people looking for elderly care are doing so on behalf of an older relative, usually a parent. More often than not, it is a need that emerges quite suddenly. The person concerned might be deemed fit to leave hospital after say a fall or [...]