Housing Benefit help Over 65

lakes17

Thanks for that Borkid - you may be right. I hadn't considered there may still be a mortgage on the house.

sh1981

Please let your mum stay with you, you are in this world because of her! Please have a think about this. You might find lots of options, from old peoples homes to shelters to her own apartment but please, have a heart. I know of someone old, who lived alone and recently fell from bed and broke her hip and could not even reach the telephone until someone came in the morning to check on her and found her like this.

Mojisola

sh1981 wrote: »

Please let your mum stay with you, you are in this world because of her! Please have a think about this. You might find lots of options, from old peoples homes to shelters to her own apartment but please, have a heart. I know of someone old, who lived alone and recently fell from bed and broke her hip and could not even reach the telephone until someone came in the morning to check on her and found her like this.

Emotional blackmail!

I know elderly people who live with their adult children and hate it - they want their own space and their independence.

Multi-generational households can work very well if everyone involved has chosen to live that way. If some are doing it because they feel obliged to, it rarely works well.

Morglin

sh1981 wrote: »

Please let your mum stay with you, you are in this world because of her! Please have a think about this. You might find lots of options, from old peoples homes to shelters to her own apartment but please, have a heart. I know of someone old, who lived alone and recently fell from bed and broke her hip and could not even reach the telephone until someone came in the morning to check on her and found her like this.

DH and I don't live in sheltered, we have a flat, and we have our health issues and age (:eek:) going against us, but I cannot think of anything worse than my kids being lumbered with us, or us being lumbered with them! :eek:

All love each other dearly, but not in the same house........:D

We want our independence, as do most - please don't assume that parents always want to move in their kids, when the going gets tough!

We don't.

Lin