The Soapbox of Dementia Care
.... and then someone else .... jumps on soapbox. That someone’s me.
Yes, jenniferpa may be technically correct and may also be AS (Alzheimer’s Society) correct.
EPA = register it if you have reason to believe that your ‘Donor(s)’ no longer has/have the mental capacity to handle the affairs. That is the legally, technically and morally correct and required thing to do. Otherwise you may well be accused (at some as-yet-unseen point in the future) of abusing your donated Attorney-ship, given in good faith by someone who trusted you to do the necessary. Don’t abuse that trust.
It’s not the CoP but the SS who ‘may’ be interested. The SS cares sometimes more about financing care than the SS cares about providing care. (But I digress!!)
Tax Office can go back 7 years or more, if it’s convenient, to look into affairs. The SS can also go back 7 years or more, if it’s convenient. (Shame we don’t have similar powers!)
My soapbox contribution goes along the lines of: how inexplicably easy it is for ‘us’ to worry about and to be accused of fraud and/or deception and/or not playing the dementia-financing game according to ‘the rules’ laid down by others (and I’m not for one moment suggesting that dementia is a game; far from it, as most people who know me by now know by now!!!).
The ‘rules’ are stacked against us. And if I’m wrong there, then someone will no doubt show me where I’m totally misguided in my thoughts.
Is there a ‘statute of limitations’ to protect those of us needing dementia care? Even the Human Rights Act doesn’t always provide protection for ... some in need of dementia care.
Where are the statutes that protect us, those of us dealing with the dementia care needed by our relatives with dementia, today and tomorrow and the year after? They are not there. They are just not there. There are no statutes to protect all of us.
Where are the statutes that protect those of us dealing with the rules that have been broken by the care providers, and/or the local authorities and/or the CQC? There are no statutes to protect us, and thereby to protect the Very Best Interests of our relatives needing dementia care.
The current system is not only unfair – it is corrupt, and it has been wilfully corrupted. In the Very Best Interests of ... ... ... please, you tell me, because I haven’t worked it all out, yet.
Corrupt not only in its provision of dementia care often, but also corrupt in its abuse of people with dementia and of those who care for/about them. Shackled, silenced, strung up, tied up in rules and regulations that even the professionals don’t understand.
I apologise if I offend Alzheimer’s Society, and Alzheimer’s Society’s TP Moderators and most importantly TP Members with dementia and caring for those with dementia, but I’ve had my fill of the system currently in place.
I would say husband your resources – or even wife your resources – but do it legally and carefully.
.... jumps off soapbox now, to free the soapbox for anyone else who wants to jump up and exercise their vocals!
Soapbox is available for ... ... ...