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  1. FS46 LP Paying for care and support at home.pdf

    of 32 Factsheet 46 Paying for care and support at home May 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains charging for social care services in places other than care homes, mainly related to services ... services provided in your own home. It also covers charging for carers’ services. This factsheet describes how you can be deemed to be a self-funder following a financial assessment. This means you are expected

  2. FS29 LP Finding choosing and funding a care home.pdf

    funding a care home July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet gives information about finding, choosing and funding a suitable care home including types of homes, how to identify the right home for you ... funding of care home placements. This includes information about the rules for local authority funding. There is also information about making private, selffunded arrangements with a care home. Age UK produces

  3. Competition and Markets Authority: care homes for the elderly charging fees after death, January (PDF, 312 KB)

    1 Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority – UK care home providers for the elderly – draft consumer law advice on the charging of fees after death January 2018. Ref. 0818 ... is consulting on draft advice for providers of care homes and nursing home services to the over 65s in the UK (referred to in this document as ‘care home providers’). This is primarily in relation to the

  4. Competition and Markets Authority market study of Care Homes Statement of Scope Consultation Response - January 2017 (PDF)

    1 Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority market study of Care Homes Statement of Scope January 2017. Ref. 0117 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this ... London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation The CMA is carrying out a market study into care homes for older people, to review how well the market works and if people are treated fairly. This consultation

  5. CRS_July17_CMA_Care_Homes_Market.pdf

    Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority: Care Homes Market Study Update paper 17 July 2017 Ref No. 1617 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper ... Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation The CMA is carrying out a market study into care homes for older paper, to review how well the market works and if people are treated fairly. They have

  6. Age UK Response CMA Draft Consumer Law Advice for Care Homes - July 2018 (PDF)

    Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority Care Homes for the elderly – draft consumer law advice July 2018. Reference: 2818 All rights reserved. Third parties may only ... have enough money; enjoy life and feel well; receive high quality health and care; are comfortable, safe and secure at home; and feel valued and able to participate. The response also includes comments

  7. Factsheet - Paying for short-term and temporary care in a care home (PDF)

    short-term and temporary care in a care home October 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains the financial assessment rules that cover shortterm and temporary care homes placements. These placements ... such as respite care or trial periods. A distinction is made between ‘temporary’ (generally up to 52 weeks) and ‘short-term’ (up to eight weeks). Age UK factsheet 41, How to get care and support, has

  8. Behind the Headlines – The Battle to Get Care at Home

    1 Behind the Headlines: the battle to get care at home May 2018 Benita Pursch/ Ruthe Isden 2 Introduction Over a third of the calls to Age UK’s information and advice line are from ... questions about social care at home. The stories they relate are deeply revealing; for many older people and their families it seems, getting access to decent quality, reliable home care, and maintaining it

  9. Factsheet - Finding choosing and funding a care home (PDF)

    funding a care home July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet gives information about finding, choosing and funding a suitable care home including types of homes, how to identify the right home for you ... funding of care home placements. This includes information about the rules for local authority funding. There is also information about making private, self-funded arrangements with a care home. Age UK produces

  10. Factsheet - Paying for care and support at home (PDF)

    of 27 Factsheet 46 Paying for care and support at home May 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains charging for social care services in places other than care homes, mainly related to services ... services provided in your own home. It also covers charging for carers’ services. This factsheet describes how you can be deemed to be a self-funder following a financial assessment. This means you are expected

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