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There's no rush Liz but Mum is now in her 80's so it seems like a good time to look ahead. IF we'd been wise then we'd have done on her when we did Dad's as that was only about £100.

I'll have a look on the Martin Lewis website and see if there's anything there.

Thanks for your help.

There was a very good piece about this on one of the Martin Lewis programmes a few months back. If you do it before there is urgent need it is supposed to be much cheaper and less complicated so your costs sound very high , Shirley. I have spoken to o.h. and his son about it due to oh's memory problems getting worse. He must be concerned himself as he has promised he will see the doctor after our holiday.

Claire I hope you can sort it out yourself.

Anything to make life less difficult in times of worry and ill health has to be worth doing.

Lizx

We've been quoted £1,000 which seems an awful lot of money for a form to be filled in and registered. I've discovered that I can do it myself for far less but wanted to know how complicated it is.

Yes we did one through our solicitor a while ago when hubby was diagnosed with dementia .

It was very straight forward .they went through what was wanted and prepared the document and registered it for us too

Wasn't cheap . Cost us about £800 I seem to remember. And this did include two visits to the solicitor to and the registration fee

But it does give a peace of mind as hubbies memory fails

Edit I didn't read your enquiry as did you do it yourself , sorry

Please has anyone done one of these themselves? I'd like to know if it's fairly straightforward.