Posted in News on Feb 12th, 2010
The Daily Telegraph has published an article offering advice on minimizing the amount paid for care whilst ensuring that children will receive an inheritance. Tips offered include:
Make sure you claim all the welfare benefits to which you are entitled. Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance are not currently means-tested.
If your condition changes, ask for your [...]
Posted in News on May 12th, 2009
The Telegraph reports on a study undertaken between 1991 and 2006 at the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Results showed that the rate of cognitive decline amongst patients with Alzheimer’s tripled for those that had experienced delirium just before or at the onset of developing dementia. Although the two conditions are unrelated, delirium [...]
Posted in News on May 6th, 2009
The Telegraph website reports on a number of cases where elderly or mentally ill patients have been forced or pressurised to move into a care home by social services. The article is published in the wake of the recent case of Betty Figg, where an elderly lady was forcibly removed from her daughter’s home [...]
Posted in News on Apr 16th, 2009
The Telegraph reports that new legislation being drawn up the Government could lead to the costs of residential or nursing care being recouped from a person’s estate after their death. The proposal is one of a number of options being put forward in the long-awaited Green Paper on the reform of care services in [...]
Posted in News on Apr 16th, 2009
The BBC Television programme Panorama has broadcast a revealing insight into the way that care providers supply care at home to vulnerable people. Using a mixture of undercover reporters posing as care staff and secret cameras placed inside people’s homes, the programme demonstrates the poor standard of care given by three private care providers: [...]
Posted in News on Mar 27th, 2009
The Telegraph reports on work underway at Aston University in Birmingham, where scientists have ‘reprogrammed’ cells taken from a cancerous tumour to make them identical to cells in the human nervous system. It is hoped that the research, funded by the Humane Research Trust, will lead to a greater understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such [...]
Posted in News on Mar 27th, 2009
Further to the Prince of Wales’ much-publicised statement , read at the Alzheimer’s Research Trust’s annual conference, Andrew Pierce of the Daily Telegraph calls for him to ‘use his contacts’ to benefit the nation’s ‘caring Cinderellas’. Mr Pierce welcomes the Prince’s contribution to the conference – which focused on funding additional research – but [...]
Posted in News on Feb 14th, 2009
The Telegraph’s website has published several articles about care home fees, the means-testing system and how the ‘crisis’ in services for the elderly has led to a massive increase in the number of homes being sold to fund care. Located in the Health section of the website, the new articles join existing content such [...]
Posted in News on Jan 18th, 2009
A three year study published in the January 2009 issue of The Lancet Neurology reveals that prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to dementia sufferers nearly doubles the risk of the patient’s early death. The study was funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (ART) and was led by Professor Clive Ballard of Kings College, London. 165 [...]
Posted in News on Dec 17th, 2008
The Daily Telegraph reports on five ways that families can beat the ‘postcode lottery’ and reduce the cost of a relative’s care in a nursing or residential home:
Keep ownership of your home away from the grasp of the Local Authority if at all possible
Ensure you’re getting the right level of care funding, e.g. NHS-funded [...]
