Private clients

Advising the elderly

We can advise our family clients in relation to the very broad range of issues affecting the elderly and elderly relatives, including:

• Buying retirement housing
• Your rights at work
• Making your will
• Noise and neighbour nuisance
• Local authority charging procedures for care homes
• Raising income or capital from your home
• Financial help with repairs and alterations
• Dealing with someone's estate
• Income Tax
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit 
• The State pension
• Legal arrangements for managing your finances
• Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance
• Tenants' rights
• Treatment of the former home as capital for people in care homes
• Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner
• Transfer of assets and paying for care in a care home
• Local authority assessment for community care services
• Getting legal advice 

In short we can advise about all these legal issues facing older people, their relatives and carers.

Where necessary we can help where The Court of Protection and Public Guardianship Office have to be involved (see also Enduring and Lasting Powers of Attorney)