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Organisation: NHFA Care Fees Advice
Address:

St Leonard's House, Mill Street, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4JX
or
NHFA, FREEPOST SCE12765, Eynsham, WITNEY, OX29 4BR

Telephone: 01865 733000
Fax: 01865 733001
Telephone Helpline: 0800 99 88 33
Email: enquiries@nhfa.co.uk
Website: www.nhfa.co.uk
Main Contact: Philip Spiers
Contact times: 08.45 to 17.15
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

Taking the worry out of paying for care the NHFA provides a specialist advisory service to older people, their carers or relatives on financial and legislative problems arising when entering Nursing or Residential Care including advice on how best to meet the cost of care from resources available with an aim to protect and preserve capital whilst also paying increasing fees.

Advice and guidance on DWP benefits, local authority assessments, health authority responsibilities, important legislative matters and tax problems, comprehensive fact sheets and information available on request.

NHFA care advice line freephone 0800 99 88 33.

 

Organisation: NHFA Lifetime Mortgages
Address:

St Leonard's House, Mill Street, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4JX
or
NHFA, FREEPOST SCE12765, Eynsham, WITNEY, OX29 4BR

Telephone: 01865 733000
Fax: 01865 733001
Telephone Helpline: 0845 1300 123
Email: enquiries@nhfa.co.uk
Website: www.UKlifetimemortgages.co.uk
Main Contact: Peter Fisher
Contact times: 08.45 to 17.15
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

NHFA firmly believes that financial security is an essential ingredient in providing older people with a sense of well-being and offering Equity Release advice compliments NHFA's existing advisory services. NHFA is able to offer retired homeowners and their relatives the ability to stay in their homes or improve the quality of their lives by drawing down income or capital from their properties.

 

Organisation: Elderly Client Adviser
Address: 3rd Floor, 266 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 6TQ
Telephone: 020 8785 5979
Fax: 020 8785 9373
Telephone Helpline: 020 8785 2700
Email: jkearns@ark-group.com
Website: www.ecadviser.com
Main Contact: John Kearns
Contact times: Monday - Friday 9 - 6
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: No
Aims:

Elderly Client Adviser (ECA) is designed to provide practical advice and guidance on the range of legal and financial issues that affect older people. The information is specifically tailored to meet the interests and concerns of professionals who advise older people, providing readers with the practical guidance they need to advise their clients effectively. In terms of the market ECA is totally dominant with no other publication covering this breadth of material related to older clients.

 

Organisation: time4care
Address: Copenhagen Court, 32 New St, Basingstoke, RG21 7DT
Telephone: 01256 313786
Fax:  
Telephone Helpline: 0800 0838 039
Email: info@time4care.co.uk
Website: www.time4care.co.uk
Main Contact: Ivan Gould
Contact times: -
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

A membership organisation for people over
60. We provide help and support in property and care issues. This could be
adapting or maintaining your current home, moving to a smaller property or
into care or an income supplement..

Solicitors
Organisation: Dutton Gregory (Member -Solicitors for the Elderly)
Address: Trussell House, 23 St Peter Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8BT
Telephone: 01962 844333
Fax: 01962 863582
Telephone Helpline: -
Email: r.peel@duttongregory.co.uk
Website: www.duttongregory.co.uk
Main Contact: Richard Peel
Contact times: Mon - Fri, 9 - 5
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

A full range of private client advice including Wills, Powers of Attorney, Tax Planning, Investment Services, Long Term Care Planning, Estate Administration and Living Wills on a personal basis from a team of 4 Solicitors.

 

Organisation: Caroline Coats Solicitor (Member -Solicitors for the Elderly)
Address: 43 Long Lane, Holbury, Southampton, SO45 2LG, Southampton, SO45 2LG
Telephone: 023 8089 0919
Fax: 023 8089 0919
Telephone Helpline: -
Email: caroline.coats@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.carolinecoats.co.uk
Main Contact: Caroline Coats
Contact times: Mon - Fri, 9 - 5
Service Areas Covered: Local only
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

Advice on legal issues that concern the elderly.
Including Care Home fees funding, Care Home contracts, Wills, Enduring
Powers of Attorney, Trusts, Estates, Preservation of Assets etc. Home
visits are available at no extra charge if resident within the area bordered
by Poole, Salisbury, Basingstoke and Portsmouth.

 

Organisation: Oxfordshire Community Care Rights
Address: Unit 2, Home Farm Barn, Thrupp Lane, Radley Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3NG
Telephone: 01235 550888
Fax: 01235 550111
Telephone Helpline:  
Email: admin@occr.co.uk
Website: www.occr.co.uk
Main Contact: Diana Thomas, Manager
Contact times: Mon - Fri, 9 - 5
Service Areas Covered: Local only
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

OCCR is an independant charity that provides free confidential rights based information, advice and support in Community Care Law to anyone who is in need of, or receiving, community care services which are provided by social services or health. ie. those with mental health problems, elderly, sick, disabled, children in need.

 

   
Organisation: Lawson-West
Address: 241 Uppingham Road, Leicester, LE5 4DG
Telephone: 0116 212 1000
Fax: 0116 212 1051
Telephone Helpline: -
Email: jwright@lawson-west.co.uk
Website: www.lawson-west.co.uk
Main Contact: Rebecca Lee
Contact times: Mon - Fri, 9 - 5
Service Areas Covered: Local only
Local Reps: Yes
Aims:

Services Description: Solicitors who provide expert advice on,
inheritance tax planning, Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Equity
Release, and care fees planning. We are also estate agents so we can help
you sell your house, if you need to.

 

 

 
Organisation: Community Care
Address: Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, SM2 5AS
Telephone: 0208 652 4699
Fax: 0208 652 4739
Telephone Helpline: -
Email: gary.brigden@rbi.co.uk
Website: www.communitycare.co.uk
Main Contact: Gary Brigden - Web Coordinator
Contact times: Mon-Fri, 8-4
Service Areas Covered: All of UK
Local Reps: No
Aims:

Community Care is the leading social care information provider.
www.communitycare.co.uk is a specialist site dedicated to all areas of the
social care profession, reflecting the 30 years of quality information
offered by Community Care.

 

 

 
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