Does anyone know what a family's rights are to refuse a "continuous care assessment" for an elderly relative please?
My gran, who is extremely old, is in a private nursing home funded by social services.
Over the past year, her dementia has worsened and social services are keen to get her off their books and into an elderly mentally ill (EMI) unit in hospital.
This seems to be based on financial reasons as it costs them £80 a week for her to stay in the nursing home - this is what the home has told us privately.
She's being well looked after there and the home feel it's likely to be the end of her if she is forced to move.
I'm not her next of kin - my uncle is, but I'm close to her.
Could he simply refuse permission for her to be reassessed and moved? Or could social services go ahead and do it anyway?
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Rights over elder care and "continuous care assessment"
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mamhaf · 14/10/2009 13:27
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