Subjects:

Family Law

Contents:

The policy framework

NHS responsibilities for long term care

hospital discharge

local authority services for older people

assessment and service provision

residential care services

public funding of long term care

the local authority's means test for residential care

treatment of the resident's former home

preserving assets

paying for non-residential services

funding care through welfare benefits

preserved rights

case studies.

Revised and expanded for its second edition, this text tackles the funding of community care for the elderly together with the implications for the recipients. It provides specific advice for practitioners on the protection of assets from local authorities seeking to recover residential expenses. Incorporating changes to the law, the book examines the issues around entitlement to care and considers the impact of The Human Rights Act 1998.