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Plain-English analysis of UK care funding, sector developments, and how families can protect the family home.
Most families contact social services first. This article explains what a social services assessment can and cannot do — and what home-owning families have available when the council cannot help with costs.
For decades, English families have been told the home must be sold to pay for residential care. The Care and Home Inheritance Plan changes that assumption.
When a parent leaves hospital, the care funding question becomes urgent. Most families are told they must self-fund, but few know that selling the home is not the only option.
The range of care funding options available to UK families today is essentially the same as it was in 1990. Five structural reasons explain why, and what that means for families navigating it now.
Most UK families have around 21 days between a trigger event and a care funding decision. Understanding this timeline, and the psychological forces inside it, changes how families use the time they have.
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