Hello everybody again and a belated happy new year to you all.
I came across this link in an article sent to me yesterday by a dear friend of mine and I thought it might be of interest to all of you who are either already paying care home fees or like myself, in the process of finding the funding to cover the cost of a care home in the future. Like many of you fellow carers, my father’s financial situation means that if and when the time comes (hopefully much much later rather than sooner) that he needs full 24hr care then he will have to pay for it out of his savings and be forced to sell his house. This landmark ruling against a Primary Care Trust will hopefully pave the way for myself and others to challenge the NHS when they say that Alzheimer’s suffers who have saved for their old age during their working lives are not eligible for state funding.
Here is the link:
http://www.careandhealth.com/Pages/Story.aspx?StoryID=deb674dd-69e0-4968-b854-0050aa2ac0bc
I came across this link in an article sent to me yesterday by a dear friend of mine and I thought it might be of interest to all of you who are either already paying care home fees or like myself, in the process of finding the funding to cover the cost of a care home in the future. Like many of you fellow carers, my father’s financial situation means that if and when the time comes (hopefully much much later rather than sooner) that he needs full 24hr care then he will have to pay for it out of his savings and be forced to sell his house. This landmark ruling against a Primary Care Trust will hopefully pave the way for myself and others to challenge the NHS when they say that Alzheimer’s suffers who have saved for their old age during their working lives are not eligible for state funding.
Here is the link:
http://www.careandhealth.com/Pages/Story.aspx?StoryID=deb674dd-69e0-4968-b854-0050aa2ac0bc
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