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Volume 4 Issue 6
Features
As Safe as House Part 1
In May 1999 the Department of Trade and Industry, together with the Health Education Authority, launched a safety campaign to reduce the number of deaths and injuries due to falls in the home. The campaign called, Avoiding Slips, Trips and Broken Hips, is aimed primarily at older people. The statistics are stark
Carers of older people with learning disabilities. Issues and implications
Increased longevity can be regarded as one of the great social achievements of the twentieth century. For the first time, in European and North American countries, increased numbers of people with lifelong disabilities are surviving into old age.
Case study: Achieving a nil valuation through the lack of a willing buyer
The background Mrs J, a widow aged 82, was admitted to a nursing home, no longer being able to continue living at Greenacres, the family home, worth approximately £120,000. Mrs J had a beneficial interest in the property by virtue of her late husband
Coughlan Implications for health law and beyond
On July 16 1999 the Court of Appeal gave judgment in R v. North and East Devon Health Authority, ex p. Coughlan (The Times, July 20 1999). Whilst the principal importance of this case lies in the fields of health and social services law, the judgment of the Court of Appeal has much wider ramifications
Coughlan CASENOTE
R v. NORTH AND EAST DEVON HEALTH AUTHORITY ex parte COUGHLAN (Secretary of State for Health and Royal College of Nursing intervening).
Overpayment of Benefits.<BR>The law, recovery and implications for appointees
When a person is paid benefit to which they are not entitled, there is said to have been an overpayment of benefit. That overpayment may or may not be recoverable. This is an issue which is not just one which arises in the context of someone who fails to disclose their part-time earnings, but also one which occurs among older people, especially those who may be claiming a means tested benefit for the first time, and who are unfamiliar with the system - in particular the fact that disclosure to one person will not necessarily count as disclosure sufficient to prevent an overpayment. For example, a person claiming (say) income support may well give details of their state retirement pension but fail to disclose a private pension or (as in a case known to the writer) a war pension or industrial disablement pension.
