Helping you to find your way
The care systems across the UK can be confusing and difficult to navigate, especially when you’re dealing with them for the first time, or in stressful circumstances where you are trying to get answers to urgent questions. Even worse is the fact that it’s difficult to know where to turn for reliable answers, or whether the answers you’re getting are accurate and up to date.
So we produced the following clear, accessible guides to serve as reliable sources of information, support and guidance for anyone who is trying to find care, support or the right living environment for themselves or an older relative.
In the following documents we have distilled years of experience supporting clients with the real, day to day issues that they face, as well as our practical understanding of the difference between what should happen in theory and what does happen in reality when people are trying to get the best outcomes for themselves or their loved ones.
MCC’s guide to getting the care you need
E-book/PDF file
Every day at My Care Consultant we help people who are struggling to make sense of the rules and regulations that apply whilst they try to navigate the challenges of arranging care, working out who should be paying for it, and ensuring they receive the practical or financial help they might be entitled to. We know from experience that a basic understanding of how things work helps most people at least start off down the right path. So we have written this guide to be clear and accessible and to give you a good overview of what you need to know when you are interacting with the care systems in the UK.
£24.99 
MCC’s Guide to local authority support for adult social care
E-book/PDF file
At My Care Consultant we continue to see examples where the correct procedures to determine eligibility for Local Authority funded social care haven’t been properly followed or implemented. And with the reversal of the government’s expected reforms, which have now been delayed until at least 2025 things are even more complex and confusing. We have designed this guide to be a useful starting point for anyone in need of care who might be eligible for some level of support from their local authority, with the aim of helping them understand what should happen and what to do if it doesn’t.
£19.99
MCC’s guide to NHS Continuing Health Care
E-book/PDF file
NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) is a package of care for people aged 18 or over who are assessed as having a ‘primary health need’ due to disability, accident, or illness. If you are awarded NHS CHC funding, this can be a game changer financially. If you receive NHS CHC in your own home, the NHS covers the full cost of the care that will meet your assessed health and care needs. If you receive NHS CHC in a care home, the NHS will also pay your care home fees including food and accommodation costs.
It’s not easy to get NHS CHC funding, but this guide is designed to help you understand what should happen if NHS CHC might be an option for you, and how to increase your chance of getting a fair outcome when you are being assessed for it.
£19.99
Choosing the right residential care: a comprehensive list of questions to ask to help find the right provider for you
E-book/PDF file
When you visit a care home to assess whether it might be the right place for you or your relative, what should you be looking for? This document is designed to help work out which things matter most to everyone involved, and our clients at MCC have often said that it includes things which they would not otherwise have thought about until it was too late.
£9.99
Choosing the right home-care provider: a comprehensive list of questions to ask to help find the right provider for you
E-book/PDF file
When faced with several care agencies, all appearing to offer similar services, making a choice can feel like an overwhelming prospect. But this checklist of questions is designed to help you find out what you really need to know about each of the providers you are considering, so you can more easily compare them.
£9.99
Questions to ask about Retirement Living Developments: What you need to know in order to help find the right solution for you
E-book/PDF file
Asking the right questions when considering what type of property or scheme best meets your needs is just as important as the quality of information you are pro-actively given by the provider, so we created this comprehensive list of questions to ask for each of the main types of retirement housing. It explains about the different types of retirement living complexes, and is designed to help you uncover what factors are most important in your case, and to help you identify the right Retirement Living environment for you.