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Living with DyingArrow
Age 61-70
Interview 11  

Interview 11

Age at Interview: 67
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 56
Background: Auxiliary nurse (retired), divorced, 7 children
Brief outline:Diagnosed in 1993 with lymphoma, treated with chemotherapy, and then developed heart failure.


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Her social worker helped her to fill in the forms to obtain Disability Living Allowance.

 



And what about... Thinking now about finances and money and benefits. Have you got enough information?

I've got... because the hospice has got a social worker and she helps you with that very much. She's very good so they don't keep you short of money. 

What kind of benefits do people need in your circumstances if you've got to advise someone?

What do you call it there? I don't know these benefits...

Disabled Living Allowance?

That's right. That's a good one because once they give it to you they don't come every month nagging you, you know. They gave me a supplementary what's it called, this one?

Is it the supplementary benefit to the disabled living allowance?

No. I don't have... my pension doesn't pay me enough so they make it up. I forget what that one called...

Is that called income support?

That's right. And every year they come and they nag you like 'you not working', you know? They just nag you and you have to be searching for forms and papers and once I put down anything I just forget where I put it. 
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