Long Term Care

Care home providers are failing to inform local councils when residents die and continue to receive money for their care, new research reveals.

Prudential product technical manager Gerry Brown on why there are plenty of product solutions for clients’ long-term care needs

A commission has been launched to look at improving dignity and care to older patients in hospitals and care homes.

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.

The pensions and insurance industry must create a long term care (LTC) savings vehicle separate to other products to tackle the problem of growing care needs amongst the elderly, Axa said.

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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.

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.

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The FSA said it may look at ways to improve the standard of advice for products that meet care fees funding needs.