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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / October 2008Costs of care homes
My father has severe dementia and is currently in a residential care home in Northamptonshire, but the price has recently gone up and his pension no longer covers the cost. We have applied for funding, but ir is very unlikely that we will get it as he used to own property and the majority of the money has been spent. Although he now has less than £21,000 in savings, it makes no difference because he used to own property. If the application for funding falls through, we have the following options. 1. Find a cheaper care home (current cost is £1742.56 per month). Are there cheaper ones than this in the Northamptonshire area? 2. Live-in care. This is when the patient lives with relatives and has 24 hour care with a live-in nurse (about £600 per month). In this case, he would live with my Brother as he has enough room to put him and a carer up. 3. My Brother and I pay the extra cost out of our own money. This works out at £75 each per month to make up the difference. Neither of us are in highly paid jobs, and we would certainly need to tighten our belts if this was the situation on a long term basis. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd be grateful. Mark. Marky P. Hi Marky, I noticed that no one has replied to your posting below, and I have no idea why...... I just wanted to express good wishes and that I hope you are able to resolve your dad's living situation without too much stress. We used to have more posters from the UK, but for some reason there are less now. Do keep in touch on how you are doing in your search.  Signature-- Best Regards, Evelyn "Be wise, treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others." --Lama Thubten Yeshe > My father has severe dementia and is currently in a residential care > home in Northamptonshire, but the price has recently gone up and his [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Marky P. >Hi Marky, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >have more posters from the UK, but for some reason there are less now. Do >keep in touch on how you are doing in your search. Well, things are looking good. We have found him a new home nearby that is £100 a month cheaper and he will have his own en-suite. Apparently at his current home, they have removed the carpet in his room because it smelled of urine. It seems to me that when he needs the toilet in the night, no one is around to take him, which is pretty disgusting. So the quicker he moves the better. Marky P. >>Hi Marky, >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Marky P. Glad to hear it Marky. My mother in law used to do that too. She had to go across a hallway directly across from her bedroom door to get to the toilet. We had to shampoo that carpet often......:-( Signature-- Best Regards, Evelyn "Be wise, treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others." --Lama Thubten Yeshe > Although he now has less > than £21,000 in savings, it makes no difference because he used to own > property. And I thought that US healthcare rules were weird and arcane. If he's spent down his assets, what difference should it make that he USED to own property? I'm curious as to what the so-called logic behind this would be. I mean, if you're poor, you're poor, regardless of what you used to own. >> Although he now has less >> than £21,000 in savings, it makes no difference because he used to own [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >logic behind this would be. I mean, if you're poor, you're poor, >regardless of what you used to own. I know. It's a screwy world we live in. I won't repeat what my brother said to me about this situation, as it is rather politcally incorrect ;-) Marky P. |
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