Home care for elderly Grandmother.

Mojisola

antronella wrote: »

We had 24 hour live in care for my mum.. for about10 months..till she sadly passed away last year. If your granny's wishes are to stay in her own home (as my mum wanted) of course you want to enable that to happen. it's lovely she has the support of all her family.. The company we went with was Helping Hands..and the amount mum was paying from her savings was approximately £700 per week.We also looked into night cover and day cover separately.. but it was actually cheaper to employ someone for 24 hours ( i.e it was £10 an hour overnight, before we even looked into day rates!). If you need any advice/support... feel free to PM me x

These are the sums we've been doing and are keeping an eye on the hours that we're paying for on and off during the week.

Savvy_Sue

There_Goes_Trouble wrote: »

I've suggested that maybe she could go for two weeks respite care while she's convalescing, which would also work as a trial session. Mum's going to suggest it, but hasn't had opportunity yet as Granny's still sleeping a lot and forgets conversations. There's a nice looking new place just down the road from where I work which looks fab from the outside, but I don't know anything about it really.

As she's not recovering as well / quickly as hoped / anticipated, can this be presented as a medical option? There was a theory that Dad might go to the local cottage hospital for a couple of weeks rehab / physio / general improvement in his ability to care for himself: he scuppered that by deteriorating rather than improving, but it would definitely have been a good idea rather than going straight home from hospital.

But the suggestion was coming from the doctors rather than us, and it was very definitely for a fixed period.