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The Best Move

After a year long campaign by a carer of a disabled son Ministers and MP’s are calling for banks to improve services offered to carers and those operating bank accounts on behalf of elderly or disabled relatives. According to an article in the Mail on Sunday...

30 million adults at risk

Research by ‘unbiased.co.uk ‘,a company that helps consumers find professional help,shows that nearly 30 million Britons are at risk of losing control of their assets on death by not making a Will.  By dying intestate complete control over the ultimate...

Home equals Pension/Care Home equals no Pension

Investment firm LV reveals in a report today that around 2 million people over the age of 50 say they will rely on their property, not a pension, to provide for their retirement. With poor returns on pension savings the LV study found that nearly a third of the over...

Fairer Care Funding

The Dilnot Commission Report was finally published on Monday 4 July 2011 . It contained recommendations to Government on possible ways of limiting the potential financial exposure of elderly people requiring care, as well as increasing the ‘means test’...

Govenment Review divides Coalition

According to a report in the Observer newspaper members of the Coalition Government are already divided over proposals included in a review to be published within days on the subject of old age care. Apparently the recommendations in the government-commissioned review...