Going into care

Katykat

My parents in law were in good health when they gifted their house, but it was 80 years old and needed modernising. They didn’t have the money to do that so they transferred it and their children paid for the work. It suited them at the time because it allowed them to stay in their home. 

KxMx

A friends grandad is in a care home, council funded, there was a small choice, the care is adequate and the person in question is happy there.

Another friend's parent is self funded and in a very luxurious care home, it has a small cinema with armchairs as seats, bar, bowling alley even a hair salon. High staff to resident ratio. 

While both in question are fine I know which I'd rather have my parents in.

And that's without going into what happened with the first person, kept at home a good 2-3 years beyond it being safe, a verdict made not just by the family but their GP, head carer from care provider, hears alarm team and even police welfare in the last 18 months. 

Social services knew full well he didn't have means and bumped up the care visits to maximum while pressuring the family to top those up- surely an admission that state provided home care was no longer adequate.

Thankfully there wasn't the massive crisis the family had braced for, instead a hospital admission led to a refusal to discharge them to anything other than residential care. 

Keep_pedalling

It was a similar situation with my mother. The worst bit was knowing that she needed a higher level of care than she was getting because until you got decrepit enough you can’t get past the funding panel. She would have got assisted living as an interim measure but a space only came up on the day she was discharged from hospital to a care home.

diggingdude

In my authority we would want to see rent paid since handing over the house, but that's because we are skint. Each authority does things differently 

Martin_the_Unjust

Katykat said:

My Parents in Law transferred their house over to their 3 adult children in 1998. Dad died in 2009. Mum is now 97 & is no longer able to manage in her home. We have looked at supported living accommodation. She is no longer the owner of the house but is there any legal blocks to declaring that has no property. She has just £10000 in savings & gets AA & pension credit. 

I assume that the three adult children will be happy to pay for their mums care