Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #18

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CuriousKat99 said:
From memory from my experience with my mother, there is a limit on the number of days you can go into respite care each year (it’s a bit cheaper than long term aged care) I think it’s around 2 months max per annum. If you need more than that you need to switch to long term aged care. I guess there may be more loopholes if you have multiple identities though.
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It's 63 days a year.
 
CuriousKat99 said:
From memory from my experience with my mother, there is a limit on the number of days you can go into respite care each year (it’s a bit cheaper than long term aged care) I think it’s around 2 months max per annum. If you need more than that you need to switch to long term aged care. I guess there may be more loopholes if you have multiple identities though.
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yeah we are talking about AH here, not the general public. Who knows if he knows someone connected to aged care homes that he could utilise to help him :cool:
 
CuriousKat99 said:
From memory from my experience with my mother, there is a limit on the number of days you can go into respite care each year (it’s a bit cheaper than long term aged care) I think it’s around 2 months max per annum. If you need more than that you need to switch to long term aged care. I guess there may be more loopholes if you have multiple identities though.
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I don't know how things work in Australia but is it possible that a 'vulnerable adult' who has maybe had government sanctions put on them and / or their accounts and assets frozen pending investigation and / or possibly been booted out by his family (one of whom was his full time carer), could be considered in need of a state funded supported living place?

Here in the UK it would be difficult to argue for a state funded and social housing place to be secured in those circumstances but not impossible if negotiated legally.

Also more or less anyone can privately fund a care home or respite nursing home if they have the readies, I think the only discerning factors are age related or based on medical need. I don't suppose they're in the business of turning people away if they're managed by private companies.
 
I keep thinking how magnificent and healthy and strong minded Ghislaine is.
At her age, she is doing so grand, she looks great, so bright, and her mind is as sharp as a tack.
As well as applauding her general warrior skills, we should be scrutinising her lifestyle for tips and tricks.
After everything she's been through too.
 
TootsieFootsie said:
Yes that's right, respite care is so the carer can have a break.
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So, it's an interim situation. I hope they've got him tagged, tracked and traced, preferably by multiple methods.

What if one's carer has decided to quit the job and go solo...

When a reckless and not dissimilar family member of mine was in dire straits, the government and all forms of authorities refused him assistance due to habitual 'intentional homelessness' and a straight up refusal to comply with any rules -but- he still managed to get housed and supported in the end as professionals from the charity / voluntary sector took up legally arguing his case and a non government organisation provided his home.
 
My elderly parent has been cycling through hospital stays and respite all year. They’ve almost used up their 63 days. Next comes selling their home to pay a Returnable Deposit (‘RAD’) of about $500K. But full pensioners with no assets don’t need that $$$. Interesting times for AKA. Assume he doesn’t have any property / money in his name though
 
Estelle said:
IMO RB's children have all the money in their names and are possibly paying for their father's legal fees and respite care.
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If there is any trace of stolen money going from RB to other people, they are directly implicated in money laundering - the handling and 'washing' of the money creates that crime in and of itself. Usually if there's a suspicion of this, the state employs specialist accountancy lawyers to investigate and scrutinise the books of all involved.

If there is no current and ongoing investigation of RB's finances by the Australian state and he is not already sanctioned with all his accounts frozen, that would be extremely remiss IMO MOO.
 
He almost certainly had his daughter’s hernia operation paid for by the British taxpayer through the NHS. I doubt he or his wife paid a single penny in Income Tax or National Insurance whilst living the cosy and secluded life in rural Burwash.

I have a fear he’s going to lay it on thick tomorrow should they even drag him there. He’s spent most of his life avoiding the truth and having to explain his devious ways.
 
Agnes Plume transcript-ish that no one really asked for…

Casselden - Agnes is giving evidence from Portugal. She met Frederick DeHedevary in May/June 2010. She was a widow living in Belgium at that time. She had been widowed for approximately a year at that time. She was alone but well. She met him through her son and daughter who seemed to know him. He moved into her home from the 10th of May until the 4th of June. Her son in law said he was looking for a place to stay. He had his own bedroom during that stay. She was not confined to a wheelchair at the time. She did not need to use a wheelchair from time to time at that time. She was not diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia at the time. (She thought this was a funny question.) She also could string more than a few words together. (Again she is laughing at this. She actually didn’t at first answer the question because of laughter.) She was not being seen by a doctor all the time while AKA was staying there, and did not see a doctor while he was staying with her. He offered to value her deceased husband’s coin collection. She doesn’t remember if he actually did value it. He took the coin collection. She knows that he took it because he was reviewing the coins and she went out for an errand and when she returned home “everything was gone”. She’s asked to clarify, it was just the coin collection that was gone. When AKA left with the collection, he left a note saying he was leaving and said, she thinks, that he’d be back the next day. But she never saw him again. She never saw the coin collection again. Her son did receive some of the coins back from AKA. Agnes is starting to fade, she’s tired. They only got some of the coins back, not the full collection. Looking at page 3 of a document bundle they sent her daughter, apparently a statement of interview that she gave to the police in Brussels. She provided that on the 9th of June 2010. She doesn’t remember why she made the statement (she is really fading now, poor lady). Casselden asked what she thought of AKA denying her accusations. She said he lies.

She’s granted a short break. (This lady is so wonderful btw. And I’d be surprised if she hasn’t been a witness/given testimony before for one reason or another because she absolutely answers just the question asked and no more.)

Smith (AKA’s lawyer). Her son in law was not a coin collector himself. And he was not a member of a coin collector club that he husband was a part of. She believes her SIL met AKA at work. She doesn’t quite remember where he worked, she thinks he was working at the national library. She herself is not interested in coin collecting. She did not ask her SIL for ways to sell off/dispose of her late husband’s coin collection. She did not ask her SIL to find someone to value the coin collection. She did not attain a valuation of the coin collection from the coin collectors club (she kind of laughed at this question). She DID think she was talking to AKA for a valuation of the collection. And she was not aware that SIL was having discussions with AKA to sell the collection. (If he was). SIL did not report to her any conversations he and AKA had in regards to the collection. AKA did return some of the coins, and that happened not long after AKA left. The coins were returned after her son or daughter sent an email to AKA asking for them to be returned. Coroner steps in when he wants to ask if the taking of the coins and returning of the coins was due to a misunderstanding. Coroner doesn’t think she can answer the question as asked. He rewords the question and AP says she doesn’t believe it was. He asks if she was aware of the extent of conversations between SIL and AKA regarding the collection. She says no. Some back and forth about what she means.

And she just logged off as soon as they said they were done and as the Coroner was about to thank her for making herself available.
 
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