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Paying for long-term care

November 2017

  • A model house in front of British pound notes and coins

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should the proceeds of a property sale be used to pay for care home care?

  • Two residents in a retirement home playing cards

    Older people face paying £34,000 a year to go into a care home

April 2017

  • The current system provides care for adults of working age and older people with disabilities, mental health problems, sensory loss or general frailty

    Social care reviewer condemns UK system and calls for new tax

    Andrew Dilnot says adult social care system is ‘most pernicious means-test’ in the British welfare state

March 2017

  • Residential care home

    Residential care costs 'can soak up over 50% of property values'

    Study finds the cost of a typical residential care home stay around the UK to range from 18% to 56% of average house values

February 2017

  • A bed in a lift in Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham

    When my mum became a ‘bed blocker’, I saw the crisis in care for older people

    Ros Coward
    Anyone with an elderly relative in need of medicalised social care should prepare to deal with a shockingly underfunded and uncompassionate system

January 2017

  • Older people walk along the beachfront promenade in Eastbourne

    Paying for care at home: how to negotiate the minefield

  • A elderly woman is pushed in a wheelchair

    Hiring a carer for my mother was a huge learning curve, but help is available

October 2016

  • Older couple looking in estate agent’s window

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    We want to use our pensions to pay a mortgage, but what if we end up in care?

  • Bill Brown illustration for two sons looking after mum

    IMHO ...
    How can my brother and I equally split the care our mother requires?

September 2016

  • Elderly woman in a private retirement home

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Will my mother have to sell her half of our house to pay for care?

    I won’t be able to buy out her share so we would have to sell up

May 2016

  • Elderly old woman at home with a rug on knees keeping warm indoors by electric fire

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Can I avoid my home being sold to pay for care if I buy it with my son?

    We would be tenants in common but am wondering if he would have to be living in the property for it to be excluded from means-testing

January 2016

  • A carer in Berlin, Germany

    Benefit cap on full-time carers for adult relatives to be scrapped

    Charities hail major victory as it emerges that those who spend more than 35 hours a week caring will be exempt from the cap

May 2014

  • Ann Reid and her mother Peggy Belcher

    Price of dementia: the families struggling to get NHS help

    Dementia Awareness Week aims to raise understanding of the often heartbreaking process of trying to get NHS funding

October 2013

  • woman in wheelchair with younger carer

    Take care you don't miss out on helper's allowances

    People struggling to look after ill or disabled loved ones often aren't aware there is help in the form of allowances

July 2013

  • Elderly care

    Elderly care shakeup: how will it work?

  • Elderly care shakeup

    Elderly care revolution as state-backed insurance scheme announced

March 2013

  • Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should we set up a family income trust to avoid probate and inheritance tax?

  • Yvonne Roberts

    Old age should not be approached with horror

    Yvonne Roberts
  • Strike over pensions, London 2011

    Britain 'woefully' under-prepared for rising number of elderly people

  • An elderly woman with her carers

    More than 2 million people give up work to care for relatives

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