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NetZeroZealot · 2025-07-20T18:05:08+00:00

For those of you who have set this up for your elderly parent (s) who did you use as the certificate provider? Family friend, solicitor or GP? Does it make much difference? Thank you.

old friends, who’d known them for years.

I’d only look at using a solicitor if I thought there might be issues such as challenges from other family members.

In one case the person concerned had already been diagnosed with dementia, but was, in all our opinions (including the GP), still competent enough to know what she was doing. The GP was advising her and us to get it done asap. I think we might have had more issues using a solicitor who didn’t know her. And the old friend (who’d known her over 50 years) also knew that we weren’t stepping in over other family or friends.