Parents are a cause for conecern.

Parents are a cause for conecern.
Seven per cent have forked out money to help their parents with home maintenance, shelling out over £363 million in the last year alone. “It’s only natural for people with elderly parents to worry about the standard of their home and to want to do all they can to ensure they are safe and not being conned into unnecessary repairs. Andrew Lowe, Head of Direct Line Home Insurance said:. Read more...

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Parents Are A Cause For Conecern.

Parents are a cause for conecern.

04/02/2006

The state of housing inhabited by Britain’s over 60s is causing major concern to their families, according to research by Direct Line Home Response 24.

A fifth of Britons (21 per cent) said they worried about their parents’ sub-standard housing because of damp, unsafe heating and old-fashioned security.

Worse still, even when their parents do try to have their property repaired significant numbers (nine per cent of over 60s) get ripped off by cowboy tradesmen and pay too much for home repairs.

Wasting money
“From an insurance perspective, it’s also important for homeowners to remember that changes they make to their interiors may affect the value of their home contents. More than 20 million Brits** (49 per cent) have carried out, or plan to make alterations that property experts say are likely to erode the value of their homes. Read more...

Their offspring are not just worried about the cowboys. Many (29 per cent) are concerned their parents will hurt themselves while attempting to carry out the repairs themselves.

In a bid to help their elders, one in 10 of the country’s grown up children (eight per cent) make sure they are with their over 60s parents when tradesmen carry out repairs, with 11 per cent conducting their own regular house checks.

Such is the concern of some that more than one in 10 offspring have relocated themselves or their parents to be close to each other.