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Lodders creates Care & Capacity centre of excellence

Midlands law firm Lodders has created a new centre of excellence for its Care and Capacity team of experts and their clients.

The brand new Care and Capacity hub in Henley in Arden is the only stand-alone centre of its type in the UK, and centralises Lodders’ specialist team, the longest established and one of the largest in the Midlands.

From the new hub, the team, headed by partner Sofia Tayton, provides dedicated advice, support and help to its elderly and vulnerable clients, their families and carers.

Lodders Care and Capacity team has extensive experience and expertise in guiding clients on the different types of long term care and funding options available for care home fees. It can also help with making funding applications and challenging care funding decisions, can look after the finances of the vulnerable or infirm if they need extra support, and explain the likely effect on them of the Care Act.

Further advice spans preparing Powers of Attorney for elderly clients, trustees and business owners, applications to the Court of Protection for the appointment of Deputies, statutory wills or gifts, attendance allowance, thirty party funding top-ups, and hospital discharges.

“The new hub is dedicated to addressing and easing the needs and concerns of the most vulnerable, the elderly, including those living with dementia, the friends and family who care for them,” explains Sofia, a leading expert in care and capacity law and specialist in Care Funding, Mental Capacity, Court of Protection and Powers of Attorney.

“We also support individuals who have lost the capacity to deal with their affairs, or are planning for their own future just in case this should happen,” adds Sofia, who holds the STEP Advanced Certificate in Advising Vulnerable Clients, and is a full accredited member of Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE).

“There are few things more important than how we care for our elderly, vulnerable and infirm, and our team are experienced in helping clients explore, consider and manage the legal issues affecting them and their finances.”

Working alongside Sofia are solicitors Helen Rowett and Lauren Watson, and its Care and Capacity Manager, Jonathan Hunter.

Lodders’ senior partner, Martin Green, adds: “Our Care and Capacity specialists are experienced in providing the very best professional advice on the range of matters and documents individuals should put in place, and how these should be prepared or registered. This means a straight forward and smooth process, and ensures procedural requirements are followed and all duties and responsibilities understood, for individual needs such as continuing NHS-funded care, local authority funding and preservation of assets, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Enduring Power of Attorney, and Court of Protection matters

“Our brand new Care and Capacity hub reflects the firm’s commitment to the growing need for this specialist help and advice. We consider a centralised facility dedicated to delivering this type of legal guidance is an important step for the firm, but importantly as it makes it easy for the people who need this support to access our established and excellent expertise.”

Lodders Solicitors LLP is an established and thriving law firm based in Henley in Arden, Stratford upon Avon and Cheltenham. The firm is recognised as a leading private client law firm, offering specialist advice to both private individuals and privately owned businesses, including its highly regarded work in the agricultural and real estate sectors. For more information: www.lodders.co.uk. Contact the Care and Capacity team via Sofia Tayton: Tel: 01564 796848, email: sofia.tayton@lodders.co.uk.

Image shows: Lodders’ ~~Care and Capacity team in Henley in Arden (L to R) Lauren Watson, Jonathan Hunter, Helen Rowett and Sofia Tayton.

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