YOU HAVE YOUR SAY
EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here are some from our report on how sufferers of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are being denied vital care funding and forced out of their nursing homes by local health authorities . . . MY MOTHER had Alzheimer’s for 12 years and it was gruelling fighting for the funding she deserved. My daughter, a barrister who understood the care funding process, helped me fight the assessors. We finally managed to get funding for my mum but, sadly, she died a month later. L. L., London. PERHAPS if the Government gave family carers a decent enough wage to look after relatives at home, we could stop putting them in care homes. Even paying half what they pay care homes would solve a lot of problems. R. T., Colchester, Essex. WHEN a criminal is imprisoned, why isn’t their home or car sold to pay for their stay? Who is really treated like a criminal: a prisoner or an elderly person in care? M. C., London. CHARITY begins at home. Our social care is in crisis! These poor old dears have already paid into the system and deserve the best care in their final years. S. N., South Shields. RELATIVES of sufferers should fight it all the way. I fought my mum’s case for six years and, although the nursing home staff told me I was wasting my time, I eventually received all her care costs five years after she died. I. J., Cumbria. WE HAVE lost all sympathy and warm-heartedness — now, money rules the world. We must do more for defenceless people in society. C. A., Bath. SHOCKING. If a resident has brain scans showing lesions, how can anyone deny they have the disease and are getting worse? L. K., Oxford. ÷ WRITE to Tony Hazell at Ask Tony, Money Mail, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT or email asktony@dailymail.co.uk — please include your daytime phone number, postal address and a separate note addressed to the offending organisation giving them permission to talk to Tony Hazell. We regret we cannot reply to individual letters. Please do not send original documents as we cannot take responsibility for them. No legal responsibility can be accepted by the Daily Mail for answers given.
THE DEMENTIA SUFFERERS STRIPPED OF FUNDING Money Mail, February 14