Health · Healthcare & Policy · 1 hr ago
Family home sold to fund £8,000-a-month dementia care
Hayley Garratt-Milne says her family sold their home to pay for her mother Carole’s dementia care.
The care costs £8,000 a month.
Carole had worked for years to buy a family home for Hayley and her sister.
Selling it meant using an asset Carole had spent years helping secure for her family.
The story highlights how care costs can affect family assets.
It also raises the question of how people might protect assets from being used to pay for care, but no specific method is provided here.
A family home was sold to fund dementia care costing £8,000 a month.
Hayley Garratt-Milne said she watched her mother, Carole, work tirelessly for years to buy a family home for Hayley and her sister.
The article discusses how families can prevent their assets from being used up by care costs.
The source does not state when or where the home was sold.
- Who
- Hayley Garratt-Milne and her mother, Carole.
- What
- The family home was sold to fund Carole’s dementia care.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- To fund dementia care costing £8,000 a month.
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- Care cost
- £8,000 a month
- Family member receiving care
- Carole
- Family home
- Bought by Carole for Hayley and her sister