Rip-off care home fees!

le_loup

In this part of the south-east care homes are around £600 and nursing homes around £1,000. Which is it?

xylophone

My acquaintance was formerly in a care home (around £900 a week and that particular home had connections with a charity) - when transferred to a combined care/nursing home, ( no charity connection) the fees increased....

xylophone

it's what would have happened just a few decades ago, in the pre-care-home days;

I suspect that at that time, there was more likely to have been a non working caregiver available within the household?

Some people are so frail that they cannot safely be left without constant attendance.

mgdavid

in my part of the southeast the top care homes are close to £1k / week. I shudder to think what full nursing costs.

greenglide

But "full nursing" should be funded by NHS continuing care shouldn't it?

But it is reckoned to be quite a fight to get it funded.

McKneff

albert100 wrote: »

Thanks All.


She is totally immobile


She lives about an hour away, near where she used to live and her network of friends. Moving her here would cause her grief.


Our home would not work for someone who cannot move on her own or get up any stairs.


Moving her to Thailand is interesting but not a goer either I fear.


Sorry for mouthing off but this is causing my family an immense amount of anxiety.

Why is it causing your family an immense amount of anxiety if you know that she is being given the best possible care.


Or are you anxious about that your inheritance is whittling away....

xylophone

Or are you anxious about that your inheritance is whittling away....

The OP could be anxious on his MIL's behalf because her capital is diminishing and she might not be able to afford to stay in the home where she feels happy and secure?

dianasnan

If that is for nursing care then £1100 a week now seems about right for SE England

We were paying £1166 a week for my Mum (dementia and medium rate nursing care) 3 years ago in Berkshire BUT my Mother in law was in a care home, ironically at the same time and for the same needs but in the Midlands, and that was £550 a week. Both given superb care.

The SE is definitely much more expensive.