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Related Areas of Advice | Useful Documents | Useful Agencies

Useful Documents & Agencies

We have added a number of useful links to documents and agencies related to long term and nursing care. If there are any others you think useful please do let us know.

Related Areas of Advice

There are many related areas of advice which you can find on the main site. However, we shall include three here:-

Estate Planning, including Making a Will, A Guide to Inheritance Tax & A Guide to Ways of Reducing or Cancelling Inheritance Tax.

Pensions, including State, Occupational and Personal Schemes.

Taxation, including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, National Insurance & Inheritance Tax.

Useful Documents by Other Organisations

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Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG), England.

Charging for Residential Accomodation Guidance (CRAG), Scotland.

Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG), Wales

Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG), Northern Ireland.

Mental Capacity

Directgov/Mental Capacity Act 2007

Directgov/Managing Your Affairs and Lasting Power of Attorney (see also the note towards the end of the Directgov page regarding Enduring Powers of Attorney)

Office of the Public Guardian (the home page of the official government site, with guides and documentation)

Office of the Public Guardian/Enduring Powers of Attorney

Office of the Public Guardian/Applying to be a Deputy

Office of the Public Guardian/Guide to Being a Deputy

Please note that we are not responsible and do not accept liability for the content of external websites and any documentation on them. We may not always concur with data or opinions expressed. Although every effort is made to ensure links are current, inevitably some will expire. Expired or broken links can be reported by clicking here.

Useful Agencies

Alzheimer's Society/Long Term Care

Association of Independent Care Advisers

Bettercaring

Bridgefast (our preferred partner for managing home sales for people going into care)

Care Quality Commission (the new care home regulator for England)

Carer's Allowance Online

Alternatively:

Carer's Allowance Unit, Palatine House, Lancaster Road, Preston, PR1 1HB

Telephone: 01253 856 123

Counsel and Care

Directgov

Grace Consulting (our preferred partner for care advice - health & welfare matters, choosing the right home, etc.)

Guide2care

Office of the Public Guardian (re Powers of Attorney)

United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA)

Pension Service (for enquiries about State Pensions and Pension Credit)

Please note that we are not responsible and do not accept liability for the content of external websites and any documentation on them. We may not always concur with data or opinions expressed. Although every effort is made to ensure links are current, inevitably some will expire. Expired or broken links can be reported by clicking here.

19/10/07 Revision

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03/01/07