Long Term Care
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The publication of the Dilnot Report provides a once in a decade opportunity to arrive at a fair care funding system.
03 August 2011
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3 min read
Long Term Care
Self-funding long-term care residents could still face a bill of almost £200,000 for four years in a residential home under the proposed Dilnot Commission reforms, according to Partnership.
01 August 2011
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2 min read
Long Term Care
A commission has been launched to look at improving dignity and care to older patients in hospitals and care homes.
20 July 2011
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3 min read
Long Term Care
The collapse of Southern Cross may be repeated by other care home operators as local authorities have frozen the rates they will pay for their funded care home residents.
14 July 2011
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2 min read
Long Term Care
The long-term care market effectively disappeared in the early 1990s. But is it about to re-open and how should IFAs approach it? Stephanie Spicer reports
08 July 2011
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7 min read
Long Term Care
Large numbers of care home residents who are presently private payers will be drawn within the ambit of local authority payment, Laing & Buisson has warned.
05 July 2011
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1 min read
Long Term Care
The Dilnot Commission report, set up by the Government to recommend a fair and sustainable funding system for adult social care in England, is to be welcomed.
05 July 2011
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4 min read
Long Term Care
Advisers, providers and elderly charities welcomed the Dilnot report, but urged the government not to kick the recommendations into the long grass.
04 July 2011
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2 min read
Long Term Care
Actuaries' professional body, The Actuarial Profession, has said that, if implemented, the Dilnot Report will present significant opportunities for the long term care insurance market.
04 July 2011
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2 min read
Long Term Care
The Dilnot Report on care funding today suggested its recommendations, if adopted, could kick-start pre-funded products in the long term care (LTC) market.
04 July 2011
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2 min read
