Elder Care Bill

Posted on January 17, 2013 in Elder Care News

A new survey shows tens of thousands of families are paying extra ‘top-up’ charges to care homes looking after their older relatives

(The Guardian – David Brindle)— What links the Isles of Scilly, Tameside in Greater Manchester and Tower Hamlets in east London? Not much, except that they emerge from a survey as the only councils in England in that families of older people in residential care don’t have to pay a top-up fee to supplement means-tes…

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