September 2017

Focus on Dementia Report: Prevention, Slowing Disease and Precautions

Focus on Dementia Report 2016. The Focus on Dementia Report says that Alzheimer’s drugs prescriptions are six times higher than a decade ago. HSCIC reports that the number of prescriptions dispensed in England for approved medicines to treat Alzheimer’s increased from 502,000 in 2004 to 3 million in 2014. The cost to the NHS of …

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Office of the Public Guardian

Office of the Public Guardian Lasting Power of Attorney. The function of the Office of the Public Guardian is to protect people who don’t have the ability to make their own decisions (i.e. lack mental capacity). It maintains the registers of Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney and also of court orders appointing Deputies. To make a Lasting …

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Pensioner Removed From Home Illegally – No LPAs In Place

Social Workers Error Costs Council This is the horrible tale of a pensioner removed from her home illegally by Social Workers with no authority whatever, and against her families’ wishes. What is even more frightening is that many solicitors and other legal advisers recommend that people only take out the Property and Financial Affairs Lasting …

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