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Providing information in a 'grey area' — advising on the transfer assets
Author(s)	Nicholas Parry, Alan Parkin, Greta Bradley
Journal title	Education and Ageing, vol 15, no 2, 2000
Pages	pp 211-224
Keywords	Admission [care homes] ; Assets [elderly] ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Social ethics.
Annotation	The role of professionals is considered regarding advice to older clients on the consequences of a transfer of assets made in anticipation of entering residential care. Particular consideration is given to the legal framework: circumstances may exist which have consequences for the older client beyond the purely legal ones. Legal practitioners need to be aware of and sensitive to such wider and emotional and personal issues; their professional education and training may not have adequately equipped them for this. There may also be issues which raise ethical dilemmas for social work practitioners in this context, particularly as regards reconciling potential conflicts of duty to their employing authority and to the older client, for which education and training may not have prepared them. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001031212 A
Classmark	KW:QKH: JD: IT: TQ
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