General Medical issues thread

[JohnK]

She can transfer it. It just won't be helpful in improving her financial position, at all. And a will in place does not avoid tax.

Hopefully my daughter can end up with the whole house without stupid, ludicrous taxes. That's what we have to avoid at all costs.

@Quickstatus I think you're right. It looks like they will be organising respite care for dad and the cost is 85% of pension. I may be totally mistaken but I think dad would be entitled to 63 days respite care per year.

 

[Quickstatus]

think dad would be entitled to 63 days respite care per year.

That is correct

 

[JohnM]

Well one of the wealthy Americans on Silversea cruises had a full time carer and was wheelchair bound. Sometimes the carer was a nurse and sometimes her niece. We met them on an Expedition cruise up the west coast of Africa. The crew carried her into the zodiacs and her wheelchair came with her. She even got to see a pygmy village which was on her bucket list. She died on board 2 days after we left the ship in Accra, Ghana. She was 95.

Was she buried at sea?

I think that would have completed the story.

 

[drron]

Was she buried at sea?

I think that would have completed the story.

I don't think she was but not sure. The Silversea ships at least back then had a mortuary.

 

[tgh]

an elegant way to vacate…. sewn up in canvas with a cannon ball and dropped over the side.. even the old (never say no) Silversea could not have managed that..