Long-term care planning
Long Term Care Planning
Long term care covers a variety of services which help people with a chronic illness or disability, who cannot care for themselves for long periods. For those who cannot care for themselves at home, residential care will need to be considered. According to Age UK, costs average around £600 a week for a care home place and more than £800 a week for a place in a nursing home. For many, this is a significant amount of money, and there is no way of knowing how long you will need to pay it. You’re not obliged to get professional financial planning advice when choosing how to finance your long-term care. But in most cases, it’s crucial to do so as there are numerous options, including:
- Pre-funded insurance
- Immediate needs care plan
- Care bonds
- Equity release
- Existing sources of income
- Let property
- Deferred care plans
We will recommend the best way to fund long-term care that is compatible with you and your family’s priorities. We can help with other areas such as finding professionals who can write your will, or set up a Power of Attorney. To discuss your long-term planning needs and find the best solution for you, please get in touch.
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Mark’s advice to us as first-time buyers was invaluable. He was friendly, professional, always contactable and extremely efficient, providing advice about suitable mortgages, solicitor recommendations and life insurance policies. Would highly recommend!
I have known Mark for many years now. Throughout he has been trustworthy and very patient with my questions. Over the years my needs have changed but I can still rely on Mark to find the right product for me. I am very happy with his services.
What could Mark have done better? Can’t think of anything. What were the circumstances that caused you to initially look for an adviser? When I left a corporate company and needed to organise a private pension. How has Mark helped you? In every aspect of my private pension and savings. Have you seen the outcome you were hoping for? Yes absolutely. I would have made some bad choices without Mark’s advice
Mark has provided us with financial advice for many years with particular focus on pensions, ISAs and reducing our inheritance tax liability. We have no hesitation in recommending him.
Mark has been our financial adviser for several years and continues to offer an excellent level of guidance and support. Specifically, he has helped with mortgage and investment advice taking into consideration our long term retirement objectives. We continue to use Mark's services as he understands our financial circumstances and explains how best to achieve our future goals. The advice Mark provides continues to keep us informed and we feel he is always looking at the best strategies to help our investment grow.
I contacted Mark for advice for the best use of an inheritance and my retirement plans. Mark was very informative and explained my options clearly and thoroughly. He responds quickly to any questions and is very customer focused.
Rating & Summary: Overall 5* Advice 5* Service 5* Value 5* What could they have done better? We have been very satisfied with Mark & Templegate Financial Planning's advice so far and thus from our knowledge we cannot really point to any suggestions or improvements What were the circumstances that caused you to initially look for an adviser? Originally we took the opportunity of using Mark sometime ago to re-mortgage and invest some money which worked very well so later on when looking at forthcoming pensions and retirement in general Mark was a natural choice. How has Mark Bastable helped you? Mark has advised us on several Pensions and also our financial position for some time now and will do for the foreseeable future in trying to achieve the best balance for our retirement planning Have you seen the outcome you were hoping for? Mark had evaluated our positions and future aspirations before coming back with advice that should improve further on earlier investments going forward which is something very reassuring.
I highly recommend Mark Bastable. After a detailed Financial Review, he patiently explained my pension options and advised me on tax and inheritance implications. All my emails were promptly addressed, and his responses were clear and easy to understand.
I have been using Templegate Financial Planning Ltd for investment and pension advice many years. They have just advised and moved several pensions into a drawdown account for me, all the years working and paying pensions are now coming to fruition. There was a lot of research and work in moving the pensions over, Templegate kept me informed and guided me through all the documents needed. The use of a secure portal was used for for all the communiction, so I felt safe throughout the whole process. I trust the advice and impatiality of Templegate Financial Planning Ltd and will continue using their services into the future. Would we recommend using the services of Templegate Financial Planning Ltd? An unreservedly big Yes!!
