Factsheet 1 - Moving into a Care Home

Essential Information for Self-Funding Older People

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Factsheet 2 - Funding Care in Your Own Home

This factsheet will point you in the right direction to help understand how care and support at home is funded.

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Factsheet 3 - Care Home Funding and the Treatment of Property

This factsheet explains when and how property is counted or disregarded in the means test for care and the effect it might have on benefits and local authority care funding.

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Factsheet 4 - Responsibility for Nursing in Care Homes

This factsheet details the responsibilities of the NHS with regard to nursing in care homes, in particular the NHS Nursing Care Contribution and Continuing Healthcare schemes.

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Factsheet 5 - Obtaining Care and Support at Home

There is a myriad of help, care and support available if you know where to turn to get it, this factsheet will point you in the right direction to help you live safely and independently.

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Factsheet 6 - Later Life Legal Matters

This factsheet aims to inform you of the most common legal issues that older people or their families may need to consider at some time.

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Factsheet 7 - Care Home Funding and the Treatment of Couples

This factsheet focuses on how couples are treated financially by councils in the means test for care home fees.

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Factsheet 8 - Deprivation of Assets

This factsheet addresses one of the most common questions asked of the equityCare help line: “Can my parents give away their home to avoid it being caught in the means test for care?”

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Guide to Choosing and Funding a Care Home

This free guide explains the processes involved for someone who is planning to move into a care home, from their initial needs assessment through to choosing and funding the right care home to meet those needs.

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Guide to Obtaining and Funding Care and Support in Your Own Home

This free guide explains how care and support in your own home is assessed so that suitable care can then be obtained.

It also explains how you can fund this care, including what the local authority can provide, which benefits you should be aware of, how to make the best of your own money, home adaptations and many other things that you and your family should take into account.

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A Guide To Equity Release

This free guide produced by equityCare is designed to explain the options available to you with equity release and to help you decide whether it is right for you.

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Autumn/Winter 2009 Newsletter

• New National Care Service Proposals - The reason for the Government's Green Paper
• Avoid making a Lasting Power of Attorney at your peril
• New ISA limits for those over 50
• Exploring equity release opportunities
• and lots more!

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