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In the best interests of elderly people?
— the role of local authorities in handling and safeguarding the personal finances of elderly people with dementia | | Author(s) | Joan Langan |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, vol 19, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 463-477 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Financial services [older people] ; Court of protection ; Social Services Departments ; Law. |
| Annotation | This article focuses on local authority responses when older people with dementia are incapable of managing their own financial affairs. It gives a critique of existing legal and administrative arrangements for handling and managing other people's money, and examines some of the recommendations in the Law Commission report, `Mental incapacity'. Drawing on research about policies, procedures and guidance of 27 local authorities, the author demonstrates their fragmented and variable response to: assessing mental and financial incapacity; ensuring best practice in handling and spending money on behalf of another person; regularly reviewing and monitoring the need for receivership or appointeeship and allowing residential and nursing home managers and proprietors to act as appointees. The author asks whether local authorities should continue to be involved in this area, and suggests that they must develop co-ordinated and systematic policies and practice to safeguard the financial affairs of older people with dementia. Reference is made to a similar position being advocated in the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) publications, `Home life', and 'A better home life'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980428207 A |
| Classmark | EA: J: JVC: PF: VR * |
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