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Care at home costs
thelawnet
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Is it possible for my grandma to get help with care costs at home?
She needs 24-hour care primarily because she is at high risk of falling but also cannot do anything like cooking, she also suffers with incontinence, her constant care needs have arisen following her hospital admission earlier this year due to heart failure and subsequently the death of her live-in carer (her son).
She needs 24-hour care primarily because she is at high risk of falling but also cannot do anything like cooking, she also suffers with incontinence, her constant care needs have arisen following her hospital admission earlier this year due to heart failure and subsequently the death of her live-in carer (her son).
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get in touch with social services and ask for an assessment.0
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Does she get Attendance Allowance at the moment?0
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Agree with getting in touch with Social Services for an assessment.
If she needs 24 hour care then be ready for the possibility that she will require residential care.
It is likely that she returned home after her hospital stay because she had a live in carer.
To be absolutely honest, in the situation you describe unless a live in carer can be found then the night time care makes home care very difficult.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Does she get Attendance Allowance at the moment?
Yes she does.0 -
pmlindyloo wrote: »Agree with getting in touch with Social Services for an assessment.
If she needs 24 hour care then be ready for the possibility that she will require residential care.
It is likely that she returned home after her hospital stay because she had a live in carer.
To be absolutely honest, in the situation you describe unless a live in carer can be found then the night time care makes home care very difficult.
At the moment my parents are looking after her in her home, which suits my Grandma but is not really sustainable for my parents in the long term, and would prefer not to move her from home town where she has lived for 100 years and has friends to live with them.0
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