Care Costs for the Elderly: Obey the Law Health Trusts!

A recent case of three families having to fight tooth and nail to reclaim the care home costs for relatives suffering Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s will be greeted with incredulity. English law, as set out in a Court of Appeal ruling a decade ago, states that residential care costs of a chronically sick person should be paid by the state. It seems that this ruling is being regularly flouted by health trusts.