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How 10,000 families are paying massive care home bills they don’t need to
… and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you
By Tom Rawstorne
Published: 23:12, 13 June 2014 | Updated: 00:25, 14 June 2014
As a leading theatre director, 74-year-old Glen Walford has spent her long working life touring the world. But whenever she returned to Britain, she always knew she had a home — the pretty red-brick house in the Worcestershire countryside where she grew up.
Her childhood bedroom was still there, as well as her office and outbuildings filled with her belongings.
But when Miss Walford’s elderly mother, Mary, broke her hip in 2006 and had to go into a care home, the local council ruled that Miss Walford was only an infrequent visitor to the property — and therefore the house belonged exclusively to her mother, who would have to sell it to pay for her care fees.
How Norfolk’s hidden carers are missing out on help
kim.briscoe@archant.co.uk
Thursday, June 12, 2014
8:44 AM
Carer John Cook and his wife Maureen who has dementia. Photo by Simon Finlay.
Jack Diplock-Cass is the Young Carers Champion at Great Yarmouth College. He helps look after his two brothers.
One in nine people in Norfolk is thought to be a carer, but many fail to recognise themselves as such and are missing out on vital help.
Young carer Jack Diplock-Cass
Jack Diplock-Cass didn’t realise he was a young carer until last year.
The 18-year-old helps his mum look after his brothers Sean, 17, who has deficits in attention, motor control and perception, and Colby, 10, who has autism.
While Jack, who lives near Northgate Street in Great Yarmouth, had done his best to cope, the strain took its toll on his social life, schoolwork and his health.
Go on the internet – or lose access to government services, Francis Maude tells pensioners
3:51PM BST 10 Jun 2014
Elderly people will have to have to go on to the internet or risk losing access to key government services, Francis Maude has said
Elderly people will have to have to go on online or risk losing access to key government services, Francis Maude has said
The Cabinet Office minister said in the future most public services would only be available on the internet “because we think that is a better thing for people’s lives”.
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