Getting Started

Care to be Different should be advertised as widely as possible – I feel – for their informal, accurate, helpful and encouraging advice. Their resources are invaluable to anyone in need of proper advice regarding NHS Continuing healthcare funding and the myriad of legalities and obligations. Their reference guide is excellent (as are their many website posts on the various relevant subjects).

Kim

This site is excellent for the information on absolutely every aspect of the process, with genuine folk who like me feel that their loved one has been wrongly denied funding.

MW

A tremendously well written account of the process that a person needs to engage in to grapple-wrestle with both-either simultaneously or separately the LA & the NHS.

Brian

Yet another excellent article from CTBD. Thank you! Without this website I would have struggled for information and support during the appeal process for my late father.

Michelle W

Thank you to CTBD as this site and the ebook prepared me for the trauma of dealing with “the authorities” and therefore allowed me to be very aware of Mum’s rights and how to answer the awful questions that are asked in the assessment. Initially Mum’s care was fully funded but ultimately the powers that be assessed her condition to have improved so for the majority of the last 7 years she had only limited funding. However, the breathing space that my knowledge of the process and being able to initially secure full funding enabled me to come up with a funding strategy (Lifetime Care Annuity) that we were lucky enough to be able to afford through the house sale, and which more than paid for itself; firstly due to Mum’s unbelievable will to live in surviving beyond the estimates of the actuaries, but just as importantly because of the peace of mind the family has had in not needing to worry about carehome fees. I hope this message is helpful to anyone at the start of the journey and that the advise provided by CTBD is just as helpful to them as it was to me (and of course my Mum).

Neil