Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping well. I haven't posted here for quite a while, all was quiet & settled with mum but things have suddenly taken a nose dive. Mum attends a wonderful day centre 6 days a week. The drivers who pick her up have been worried about her as shes all of a sudden totally confused, doesn't know how to open her front door so tries to post her bag through the letter box to give them her key. She has become incontinent at night & doesn't make the toilet so her house reaks of urine. Sis & I have a friend who goes in once a week to clean (everything) but we need someone more often now. Sis works full time, I'm physically challenged. We are considering a live in carer for mum, she has some savings but these wont last long so my husband is considering buying a part of mums house (to give her say £30.000) to help pay for her carer. Like you see on TV to release some assets, all legally binding. I have a niggle at the back of my mind that says if mum needs to go into full time care they will take her house to pay for it anyway & not consider our portion as it would be seen as us trying to diddle them out of a portion of her house sale. Is that true, would we loose our money? I'm beside myself with worry Mum is to "with it" to go into a home even though she has deteriorated she loves her house & knows where she is. Does she move in with my sister & we rent out her house. I'm totally at a loss. Can anyone advise me. Are we legally allowed to buy some of mums house? Lyn