UK Richest Man Dies - family failed to find care home

[Gecko1978]

From sky news

https://news.sky.com/story/sp-hinduja-billionaire-...

Sp hunduja dies of dementia judge says "Mr Hindija should leave hospital yet despite family resources they had not found a care home".

Quite telling really

[Getragdogleg]

Gecko1978 said:

From sky news

https://news.sky.com/story/sp-hinduja-billionaire-...

Sp hunduja dies of dementia judge says "Mr Hindija should leave hospital yet despite family resources they had not found a care home".

Quite telling really

Tells me the family were not that close nor gave much of a st once he wasn't useful.

[BoRED S2upid]

I imagine there’s a lot more to that story. £23bn and you can’t find a care home I’m sorry but I could find a private care home this lunchtime if I throw a decent wedge their way. Might not be close to his family or up to a billionaires standard.

[anonymous-user]

My mother in law has dementia. We're not there yet, but have looked ahead to see what we're in for and I'm not sure £23bn is enough to afford a decent care home.

[Rod200SX]

BoRED S2upid said:

I imagine there’s a lot more to that story. £23bn and you can’t find a care home I’m sorry but I could find a private care home this lunchtime if I throw a decent wedge their way. Might not be close to his family or up to a billionaires standard.

Quite, I'm young enough to have never heard of this person but I hope that his last while has at least been comfortable with carers etc, not just left to deteriorate and die.

[dudleybloke]

You can bet they will all find plenty of homes for the money.

[s1962a]

BoRED S2upid said:

I imagine there’s a lot more to that story. £23bn and you can’t find a care home I’m sorry but I could find a private care home this lunchtime if I throw a decent wedge their way. Might not be close to his family or up to a billionaires standard.

Surely with that kind of money you could buy in staff and equipment and set up a care facility at home.. if you cared enough that is.

[BoRED S2upid]

s1962a said:

BoRED S2upid said:

I imagine there’s a lot more to that story. £23bn and you can’t find a care home I’m sorry but I could find a private care home this lunchtime if I throw a decent wedge their way. Might not be close to his family or up to a billionaires standard.

Surely with that kind of money you could buy in staff and equipment and set up a care facility at home.. if you cared enough that is.

Indeed £100k a yeah probably gets you live in carer in a corner of a mansion. Peanuts for them.

[PurpleTurtle]

It's more a story of inter-family squabbling that they would not find him an appropriate place as opposed to could not find him one

https://news.sky.com/story/hinduja-family-feud-lea...

[ajap1979]

Rod200SX said:

Quite, I'm young enough to have never heard of this person...

I've never heard of him either, though I'm not sure what relevance my age has to that...

[Gecko1978]

PurpleTurtle said:

It's more a story of inter-family squabbling that they would not find him an appropriate place as opposed to could not find him one

https://news.sky.com/story/hinduja-family-feud-lea...

Course it was. The judge was pointing out they were choosing not to help him. Mostly I suspect over money an power.

[conkerman]

Misleading thread title.

Should be

UK Richest Man Dies - Family fail to care for him.


I hope they are all disinherited,

[oddman]

Gecko1978 said:

PurpleTurtle said:

It's more a story of inter-family squabbling that they would not find him an appropriate place as opposed to could not find him one

https://news.sky.com/story/hinduja-family-feud-lea...

Course it was. The judge was pointing out they were choosing not to help him. Mostly I suspect over money an power.

Placements of incapacitous patients from hospital to care homes are done under authority of the Mental Capacity Act and must be in the persons best interests. Even when it is publicly funded, if the family are squabbling, it's difficult to place patients because the patients and families wishes and feelings must be considered. Furthermore no sensible care home will take a resident where the family doesn't agree on placement.

Unscrupulous families where patient has the resources often take their time to find suitable homes and other wise delay and obfuscate the discharge process in order to prevent degradation of their inheritance.

This case is unusual because the judge could have directed discharge to a suitable care home but didn't.

dudleybloke said:

You can bet they will all find plenty of homes for the money.

They're multi millionaires. They could buy the place and put a fg jukebox in it.

Edited by oddman on Thursday 18th May 11:48

[wong]

It would be hilarious and felicitous if he wrote his will when corpus mentis and donated it all to charity.

[Wills2]

wong said:

It would be hilarious and felicitous if he wrote his will when corpus mentis and donated it all to charity.

It's actually 4 brothers (well 3 now) they had all agreed that whatever each other had was also the others and that was the issue as one had been had been arguing over the ownership of a bank within the group of companies, trying to remove that asset from the joint ownership pledge they had made.

Very sad that such an argument managed to stop the guy getting the care that clearly could have been arranged with a few phone calls.

[oddman]

Wills2 said:

It's actually 4 brothers (well 3 now) they had all agreed that whatever each other had was also the others and that was the issue as one had been had been arguing over the ownership of a bank within the group of companies, trying to remove that asset from the joint ownership pledge they had made.

Very sad that such an argument managed to stop the guy getting the care that clearly could have been arranged with a few phone calls.

Sounds like he was stranded in an NHS hospital at our expense whilst his family argued.

[cirian75]

oddman said:

Wills2 said:

It's actually 4 brothers (well 3 now) they had all agreed that whatever each other had was also the others and that was the issue as one had been had been arguing over the ownership of a bank within the group of companies, trying to remove that asset from the joint ownership pledge they had made.

Very sad that such an argument managed to stop the guy getting the care that clearly could have been arranged with a few phone calls.

Sounds like he was stranded in an NHS hospital at our expense whilst his family argued.

And now a massive court bust over the slicing up of his estate

[Rod200SX]

ajap1979 said:

Rod200SX said:

Quite, I'm young enough to have never heard of this person...

I've never heard of him either, though I'm not sure what relevance my age has to that...

From what I've read it seems like he was in the news quite a lot when I was a child so assumed the 'older' lot would've been aware of him.

[QuartzDad]

Killboy said:

My mother in law has dementia. We're not there yet, but have looked ahead to see what we're in for and I'm not sure £23bn is enough to afford a decent care home.

Having received the care plan premium quotes for my Mum this week, hollow laugh...

[Halmyre]

wong said:

It would be hilarious and felicitous if he wrote his will when corpus mentis and donated it all to charity.

But then it would all end up going to lawyers.