Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

Continuing care is defined as, professional care given to meet the physical or mental health needs of adults with a disability, injury or illness over an extended period of time.
NHS continuing healthcare means a package of care that is arranged and funded by the NHS and is free of charge to the person receiving the [...]

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If you own your own home, it may be possible to take out what is known as a lifetime mortgage.
A “Lifetime Mortgage” would allow you to withdraw capital up to a certain level to meet the cost of funding your care. The attraction of a lifetime mortgage is that there is no requirement to make [...]

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Direct payments are local council payments for people who have been assessed as needing help from social services, and who would like to arrange and pay for their own care and support services instead of receiving them directly from the local council.
A person must be able to give their consent to receiving direct payments and [...]

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