Made up Senario .... What would you do.....?

If you dispose of your assets the local authority can check back for as many years as they like and still charge you fees.

These scenarios are often exaggerated. There are some older people who lose all their assets down to £23,500 in care fees but the average person who has care, either at home or in a care home, is with them for around 2 years, unless it is nursing care in a dementia unit the cost of the care can usually be met from income and savings in a case like the one OP has quoted. About a third of people don't need care at all.

I wouldn't think twice about supporting my AC. I would think I have had a life and they are starting out. Of course I would be very firm about them not wasting money.

You can pay for an awful lot of care in your own home for a lot less than in a care home.

I do understand where homeowners are coming from. Working very hard and going without and being prudent, over a lifetime means I have an asset in my home. I would like the fruits of my labour (I have very little if any disposable income) to go to my children who have also worked really hard since leaving school/University.

I inherited nothing from my parents or anyone else - just a work ethic. I hope OH and I die quietly in our beds from old age and won't need care later in life, but nobody knows how things will turn out, do they?

I have friends who have listed their children as owners of their home. They are still fit and able and did this about nine years ago, so their children would inherit their asset. They don't pay rent to their children either. I think it's a negotiation made 'under the radar'. They seem to think they have a foolproof way to pass on their property. OH and I asked our solicitor about it a few years ago when we bought a house together but she didn't advise it.

I might want to spend that £80,000 gadding round the world!

I'm not surprised IF for some reason they fell out with their AC the AC could sell the house from under them, with no rent book even worse I should think.