This page covers: Worries about inheritance, Discussions with family about money and care, Getting a balance between providing care and paying for care. Many older people pay for their own care, but other family members are affected as well. People may find it worrying to see how quickly savings can be spent and the impact […]

This page covers: Specialist later life financial advisers, How financial advisers can help with paying for care, Concerns about taking financial advice. Paying for care often means having to sort out how it’s best to do so. It might be through income, pensions, investments or savings. People sometimes find themselves with a large sum of […]

In this section you can find out what it is like to be an older person, or a relative of an older person, who pays for their care themselves. You can see and listen to people talking about their own experiences of finding and paying for care. A researcher spoke to 29 people across England […]

Care Quality Commission – the independent regulator of health and social care in England. cqc.org.uk Information to help find, choose and compare care homes and home care agencies. Includes advice on what to expect from a care home or home care agency, and how to make a complaint. Citizens Advice citizensadvice.org.uk Free, confidential information and […]

Lyndsay Lindley Lyndsay is a qualitative researcher at the University of York, Social Policy Research Unit. Her research interests are in care of older people and everyday interaction of people living with dementia. Lyndsay has a PhD in Language and Communication from the University of Leeds (2016). Acknowledgements We are grateful to the people who […]