Nursing Home fees breakdown

badmemory

Try pricing up how much 24hr care at home would cost. When you have recovered from your faint, pay up, visit as often as you possibly can. They may well let you into the laundry to search for the missing clothes. Remember when buying clothes that you need ones that can be washed at the highest possible temperatures. If anything needs handwashing you may as well set fire to the notes used to buy them.


If you visit regularly you will get to know other visitors which can be useful. They may even visit your relative for you when you aren't able to. My mother was part of a small group that did have visitors, which meant that although I could only visit initially in the evening she had visitors throughout the day from about 1 to 8pm.


Please remember that the actual carers have no input/output on how much is being charged & frankly in my opinion are way way underpaid.

PasturesNew

They don't monitor the cost per room, just the costs overall.

My mum didn't have any nursing care, it was just a dementia home. Her rent included: Room, linen, all washing done/ironed/returned, room cleaned (daily if required/on demand if she dropped something), meals, staff member to accompany to a Hospital appointment if required, meds managed, Dr visits arranged to come to the home, entertainment, the occasional jolly out in the minibus (accompanied), seasonal themes and decorations, Easter Bunny easter egg, Father Christmas attending and giving out gifts, tea/coffee/biscuits and cake 3-4x a day, food at any other time (e.g. sandwiches, bit of cake, biscuits) if peckish, breakfast brought to room if she didn't bother to go, plates/cups removed from the room, room cleaning, accompanied/assisted showers and hair washing. 24 hour monitoring and staff, including a pressure mat by her bed so they could spot when she got out of bed at 3am and check on her. Freshly cooked meals with vast choices, e.g. cooked breakfast, a hot freshly prepared meal (2 choices of main, 2 choices of dessert + a trolley of other jellies, fruits, yoghurts), an evening meal - all cooked on the premises, using local produce. Proper, good food. We could join her if we paid a £2-3 donation into the Comfort Fund (used to pay for little outings, e.g. one year mum went to a local school carol concert in the minibus).

... and the list goes on.... annual Birthday cake/celebration party tea with decorations .... and on ....

lindens

There is a correct way to complain about her care at the nursing home and withdrawing fees is not the correct way to go about it

Have you written a letter with your complaints and involved her social worker? have you had any meetings with them?

elsien

Unlikely to be a social worker involved if there's no issues been raised. In my areas as soon as any assessments are complete and the person is settled, their case is closed. Would only be reopened if there was a safeguarding or a review due.
Plus as a self-funder it's possible that mum moved into care without social services ever being involved.