That mobility allowance for people in care homes works in reverse too. Family members can get assistance to go and visit members in residential care. So sad that often families are separated by distance because the only or appropriate or affordable care home is not where the person's family lives. This allowance can help an elderly mum visit her disabled son in a care home.

One daft thing that a care home in Essex did, was to put a fake bus shelter outside the facility paid for by taxes. Why? Because many of the dementia and Alzhiemers patients wanting to leave, to go home could be placated by letting them sit in this fake shelter waiting for a bus that would never arrive. Logical or cruel?