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Campaigners Urge the Government to Cap Residential Care Fees (19 January 2012)

Date: 19/01/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Campaigners Urge the Government to Cap Residential Care Fees

According to an Age UK poll, three quarters of those surveyed believed that the Government should cap care costs for the elderly to prevent the elderly from being forced to sell their properties to pay for their residential care. In excess of four in five respondents did not believe that the Government was doing enough to protect Britain’s most vulnerable older citizens. Some 20,000 individuals are forced to put their homes on the market every year to help them to meet the cost of staying in residential care homes.

In July 2011, economist Andrew Dilnot urged the Government to cap care costs at around £35,000, enabling insurance providers to offer products to meet the cost of the charges. Late last year, it emerged that ministers had planned reforms to enhance the quality of social care by the year 2015. However, it is unlikely that insurance schemes will be up and running until 2025.

A YouGov poll of over 1,700 adults demonstrated widespread support for a cap on care home fees. The vast majority of respondents,81 per cent, said that they did not believe that the Government was adequately supporting vulnerable older individuals, with two thirds claiming to feel worried as to their living arrangements as they increase in age.

Michelle Mitchell, Age UK’s charity director, described the results of the poll, as a “strong message” to the Coalition Government that Britons believe that older people need more help to safeguard their social care needs.

Duncan Lewis’ conveyancing solicitors can provide legal advice to elderly individuals who feel the need to sell their homes to pay for residential care fees.

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