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Volume 5 Issue 6
Features
Case Reports By Julia Abrey, Withers
Case 1 Chittock -v- Stevens and others (The Times 5 April 2000)
Case Study: Mrs Collins
Background: Lady aged 82, recently widowed from a second marriage where her husband had run all the finances. The client was the sole beneficiary of her husband's estate of over £200,000 and was referred to the IFA by the solicitor with concerns to improve her income stream and address long-term care provision.
New Fees at the Public Trust office By Martin Terrell
One of the most common complaints about the Public Trust Office has been the level of fees charged to its clients. It has been a well founded criticism that a patient, who has already lost control over his affairs has to pay for the privilege of having his affairs monitored by the Public Trust Office.These costs must furthermore be paid out of his taxed income. If the patient is even more unfortunate to lack a friend or relative to act as his receiver then he must have the Public Trustee take on this role. The cost of having the Public Trustee as receiver is even higher and it is hardly a consolation to know that the cost would be even higher but for the charges levied on patients with private receivers.
Qualifying as a cohabitant under the inheritance (provision for family and dependants) act 1975 By Miranda Allardice
The new applicants: for deaths post 1st January 1996.
Service Delivery: Is your client receiving enough assistance? By Anne Edis
My experience at Leicester demonstrates that by working with each other, the client in the long term is the benficiary and by a more open and conciliatory approach rather than a hostile one relationships can develop which are beneficial for all parties. Not all would agree I know.
The Care Standards Act 2000 By Rebecca Gray, The Alzheimer's Society
The Care Standards Act 2000, which received royal assent on 20 July, represents a radical overhaul of the UK care system. The Act could, if implemented effectively, have a major impact on the quality of care provided to children and vulnerable adults, and could make the system of regulation and inspection of care in particular simpler, more transparent and navigable. It is particularly important to the Alzheimer's Society that the standard of care for older people in care homes and in the community is improved significantly. People with dementia are major users of services covered by the Act. It is estimated that almost three quarters of the nursing and residential home population in the UK have some level of dementia.
Reforms to the National Health Service and Long-Term Care by Caroline Bielanska
On the 27th July the Government announced their plan for investment and reform of the National Health Service. Contained within the NHS Plan is the Government's response to the Royal Commission's report on Long Term Care. This article gives a brief review of the main proposals and how it will affect practitioners advising the older client.
