Passing money to the kids

amibovvered

Mojisola wrote: »

SS will do everything to keep people at home because it's much cheaper than residential care.

I worked for Social Services up until finishing work 5 years ago. The cost of quite a number of weekly packages of home care were positively eye-watering compared to residential care!

Mojisola

amibovvered wrote: »

I worked for Social Services up until finishing work 5 years ago. The cost of quite a number of weekly packages of home care were positively eye-watering compared to residential care!

I'll bet, since then, a lot of care packages have been reduced.

We've got group members who have had the hours provided reduced even though their needs are the same or have increased.

treliac

SunReader wrote: »

50 percent of elderly end up in a care home now, even if the family are able to care, social services will have her in lock up and pinch the house before you can say 'mental capacity act 2003, least restrictive option'.

Don't know where the figure above comes from, but....

Only 16% of people aged 85+ in the UK live in care homes.

The care home resident population for those aged 65 and over has remained almost stable since 2001 with an increase of 0.3%, despite growth of 11.0% in the overall population at this age.



See bottom of page 14.....

https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/Factsheets/Later_Life_UK_factsheet.pdf%3Fdtrk%3Dtrue&sa=U&ved=0CBoQFjABahUKEwjw-ZTHoKzIAhWLWxQKHbM8B0E&usg=AFQjCNGRYp5Q_aQP9E8eCjolSRpic5eANw


and it's the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

SunReader

Person_one wrote: »

You clearly have never had the delightful experience of trying to secure somebody a funded residential placement.

Yes I have actually, 2 years battling with social Services, 2 Court of Protection challenges...

Costs of agency home help and tightening local authority budgets means that homeowners -'self funders' are most at risk of being taken into care, irrespective of what the law says.

The questionable 50% stat was a future estimate of people of working age today, with longer lifespans and the epidemic of currently untreatable dementia that is often the cause of resiential 'placements'.

MCA 2005, correct, often misused by social workers instead of MHA 1983 to avoid the care costs burden and with much reduced scrutiny.

chesky

Don't see a problem, simply open a new account in mum's name.

troubleinparadise

This thread hasn't been active for 10 months, and the OP hasn't been back to it since the date of posting the original thread.

Pollycat

SunReader wrote: »

The questionable 50% stat was a future estimate of people of working age today, with longer lifespans and the epidemic of currently untreatable dementia that is often the cause of resiential 'placements'.

MCA 2005, correct, often misused by social workers instead of MHA 1983 to avoid the care costs burden and with much reduced scrutiny.

So when you posted this:

SunReader wrote: »

50 percent of elderly end up in a care home now, even if the family are able to care, social services will have her in lock up and pinch the house before you can say 'mental capacity act 2003, least restrictive option'.

it clearly wasn't true.