Thursday, 25 February, 2021 - 10:00
Zoom Meeting
Member Workshop (Private Event)
Join ARCO for an interactive workshop on assessing and managing mental capacity in Retirement Communities
This online event is open to employees of ARCO Members, Accelerators and Strategic Partners only.
This workshop will focus on how mental capacity of both existing and prospective residents can be assessed and managed within a Retirement Community setting.
ARCO’s Head of Regulation and Compliance, Sally Ireland LLM and Compliance Engagement Manager, John Hesford will be joined by guest presenters Kelly Greig, Partner at ARCO Affiliate Irwin Mitchell and Ben Slater, Director of Nellie Supports to give their insight into the best practices and approach to handling mental capacity at both point of sale and once a resident is living in a community.
As well as a joint presentation from our expert guest speakers, the workshop will be interactive with attendees working collaboratively through example scenarios.
The workshop is open to all ARCO Members, the Accelerator Programme and Strategic Partners and is primarily aimed at employees working in Marketing and Sales as well as Care and Operational roles.
If you have any questions about the event, or have any areas you would like to be covered as part of the session, please contact events@arcouk.org
Guest speaker profiles:
Kelly Greig – Partner, Irwin Mitchell
Kelly deals with all aspects of Private Client work including succession planning for businesses, administration of estates with domestic and international assets, tax and trusts, and legal issues affecting the elderly including advice on long term care funding. She has a particular interest in mental capacity law and the Court of Protection. She is also one of only 68 solicitors nationwide to be elected to sit of the Office of the Public Guardian’s national panel of professional deputies to work with people who lack the ability to make decisions about their finances. Her cases typically require bespoke arrangements or remedies to meet the particular needs of the client, whether this be in the provision of tax or trust advice, or whether a client might find themselves unable to manage their own affairs and require a medical or care support framework to be implemented and managed.
Ben Slater – Director, Nellie Supports
Ben is a qualified and registered Social Worker; and established Nellie Supports in 2019. Nellie Supports team of Social Workers provides expert mental capacity assessments and case management services across England and Wales.