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Financial management and elderly people with dementia in the UK
— as much a question of confusion as abuse? | | Author(s) | Joan Langan, Robin Means |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 16, part 3, May 1996 |
| Pages | pp 287-314 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Financial services [older people] ; Social Services Departments ; Elder abuse ; Court of protection ; Law. |
| Annotation | This article outlines the law relating to personal finances for those who lack the capacity, and stresses the complexity and key gaps in present coverage. It outlines findings from research on these issues carried out within a social services authority in the North of England. Professionals had a wide range of anxieties as to what they felt was the financial abuse of their elderly clients with dementia, as well as more general concern about how best to deal with financial issues for this group on a daily basis. The financial abuse of elderly people does occur, but this article concludes by arguing that the issues raised by the research are wider, because: relatives and professionals are often ignorant or confused by the options available, rather than being intent on defrauding older people; older people have more desire to hand down their money to the next generation rather than to the state; and fee assessment and collection raise real practical challenges to social services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970822002 A |
| Classmark | EA: J: PF: QNT: JVC: VR |
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