Application for Attendance Allowance

Hi I am in a bit of a delema about applying for AA for my husband. He is my carer and has been diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the spine over 6 years ago. He is now awaiting to see the Orthopaedic Consultant and has been advised to apply for AA to help with my care and his too. I suffer with many conditions both physical and mental health and also have osteoarthritis of the spine. We are in a repayment plan due to an overpayment of Pension Credit which was classified has a mistake not fraud. Now here is my delema. my husband does not want to apply for AA on the basis that it will flag up on the system and it would effect his claim my PIP and cause us anxiety, he is convinced one or both iof us would have to go into residential care or have a carer coming in daily which our neighbour's already do. I am unable to convince him that this would not be the case but at our ages he feels he doesn't want anymore intrusion in our lives..our lovely young neighbours help us a lot and we do treat them but can't really afford a lot. Any advice would be appreciated. TIA

Hi Gordon thank you for your reply. No he does not receive PC now since I started to receive my SP last July. We both have not so good and bad days and when I say good that's after taking pain relief. He is concerned that if he applied for AA they may question how much help he is now capable of providing for myself. However, I suffer severely with mental health issues too. Also he doesn't want any intrusion from a health care worker in the home. It's a difficult one but I know he does meet the criteria but he says he would rather not claim than "upset the apple cart " has they say!