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Lifetime Care

Welcome to the Lifetime Care pages. Here we look at the issues surrounding long term care in the UK and show how Friends Life can help you.

Please note that you cannot buy any long term care insurance products through this site. Our Lifetime Care products are only available through a Financial Adviser.

What is Long Term Care?

Long term care is needed when a person becomes ill or suffers a disability that makes them unable to carry out their activities of daily living.

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Who pays for Long Term Care?

Providing long term care outside hospitals has become the responsibility of individual Local Authorities and it is not free to everyone. Only the least well-off people are covered.

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Community Care Act

A guide to the current Community Care Act.

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Lifetime Care Products

Friends Life offers plans to help you prepare for the possibility of needing to fund long term care yourself.

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Further support

Organisations who provide help, support and advice for anyone needing or providing long term care.

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