Money and Legal Matters 11 - Further reading
Age Concern
- Your Rights - a guide to money benefits for older people (£5.99 plus postage and packing)
Fact sheets, single copies free:
- Local authority charging procedures for care homes (including free personal care)
- Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner
- Dealing with someone’s estate
- Planning for a Funeral
Alzheimer Scotland
- A Positive Choice: choosing long-stay care for someone with dementia (£1.50; single copies free to carers in Scotland)
- A brief guide to free personal care and nursing care
- Community care and assessments
- Direct payments
- Solicitors specialising in mental health
Scottish Executive Adults with Incapacity Act information
- Application pack for guardianship or intervention order – contains guidance, forms and example applications
- Code of Practice for Continuing and Welfare Attorneys
- Code of Practice for Persons Authorised under Part 3 to Access Funds of an Adult
- Code of Practice for Local Authorities Exercising Functions under the Act
- Code of practice for persons authorised to carry out medical treatment or research under part 5 of the Act
- Supplement to code of practice for persons authorised to carry out medical treatment or research under Part 5 of the Act (covering treatments excepted from the general authority to treat)
- Code of practice for persons authorised under intervention orders and guardians
- Code of practice for manager of authorised establishments under Part 4 of the Act
- Code of practice for supervisory bodies under Part 4 of the Act
- It's your decision. Leaflet prepared by ENABLE for the Scottish Executive - an explanation of the Act for adults with incapacity
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (general leaflet)
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 – Information on Part 6 of the Act – Intervention Orders & Guardianship
0131 244 4212; website: www.scotland.gov.uk/justice/incapacity e-mail: adultsincapacity@scotland.gov.uk; all codes of practice and forms also available on website
Guidance and forms – Adults with Incapacity Act
A range of guidance notes and application forms relating to aspects of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
On website or free from Office of the Public Guardian, Hadrian House, Callander Business Park, Callander Road, Falkirk, FK1 1XR.
01324 678300; fax: 01324 678301; website: www.publicguardian-scotland.gov.uk; e-mail: opg@scotcourts.gov.uk
Scottish Executive Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act Information
- The New Mental Health Act: a guide to advance statements
- The New Mental Health Act: a guide to named persons.
NHS Health Scotland (formerly the Health Education Board for Scotland)
- Coping with Dementia - a handbook for carers
- Keeping Safe - a guide to safety when someone with dementia lives alone
- Facing Dementia - useful information for people with dementia
- Understanding dementia - a guide for young carers
- Are you worried about your memory?
Mental Welfare Commission
- For people who are on Guardianship
- For Guardians
Other useful publications
- Mental Health - the law in Scotland by J Blackie & Hilary Patrick, Butterworths and Scottish Legal Education Trust. Out of print but available from libraries.
- A new edition, written by Hilary Patrick, will be available in April 2006, from Tottel Publishing.
- Your guide to a carer’s assessment. Carers Scotland, 3rd Floor, 91 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3BR; 0141 221 9141; e-mail: info@carerscotland.org, website: www.carerscotland.org
- Disability Rights Handbook - a guide to benefits and services for all disabled people, their families, carers and advisers. £16.50 (including postage and packing) or £11.00 for people on benefits from Publications, Disability Alliance, Universal House, 88 – 94 Wentworth Street, London, E1 7SA; 020 7247 8776, minicom available; e-mail: office.da@dial.pipex.com website: www.disabilityalliance.org
- Paying for Care Handbook – a guide to services, charges and welfare benefits for adults in need of care in the community or in care homes by Geoff Tait et al. £18.50, Child Poverty Action Group, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF; tel: 020 7837 7979; fax: 020 7837 6414; e-mail: bookorders@cpag.org.uk; website: www.cpag.org.uk
- The Care Maze - the law and your rights to community care in Scotland, by Colin McKay & Hilary Patrick, published by ENABLE & Scottish Association for Mental Health; now out of print but available from libraries. Does not include the latest information on the law but is still relevant on many issues.
- Council Tax in Scotland - a guide for people who have special needs and their carers. Leaflet, free from Council Tax Enquiries, The Scottish Executive, Area 3-J, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ; from the Scottish Executive website at: www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/localgov/ctcr-00.asp ; or from Alzheimer Scotland
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