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Behind the headlines
— the 'top up' stealth tax on older people in state-funded residential care | | Corporate Author | Age UK |
| Publisher | Age UK, London, July 2017 |
| Pages | 12 pp |
| Source | http://www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/Press%20re... |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Charges ; Costs [care] ; Social Services Departments ; England. |
| Annotation | For residents whose care home fees are paid by their local authority, top-up fees are intended to provide flexibility to enable older people to choose a more expensive care home. Such top-ups are paid at the express request of the older person, usually by a relative or friend. This report outlines examples of some of the 250+ cases involving care home fee top ups dealt with by Age UK's national information line in the past year on these themes: inadequate choice of care homes at the council rate so that families feel there is no option but to pay a top up fee; care homes improperly demanding top ups directly from families; hospital discharges held up by requirements for top ups that families cannot fund; increases in care home fees, forcing residents to pay or to move out; and care homes demanding top ups when self-funders run out of money. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728002 P |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: QEJ: QDC: PF: 82 |
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