Does anyone have real life experience of what happens when money runs out? My MIL has dementia and is cared for at home with 24 hour live in carers. As you may imagine this is very expensive and she will run out of money to pay for it (without selling her house) within the next 3 years. What happens at this point? BIL thinks that the council steps in and pays for the care, so she can stay there as long as she wants without having to sell her house or make any changes. This sounds too good to be true - is he right? And if he is, what happens about all the other non-care costs such as groceries, utilities etc. She has no income other than a state pension once her assets have been used to pay for care for the next few years. Will she have to fund those out of her pension? And what happens if it's insufficient for her to continue as she is now with a cleaner and gardener etc?
If anyone has experience of this situation I'd really like to hear it as I'm worried that BIL thinks it will all be fine so sees no need to think about it whereas I can see a massive problem if she is not going to get state funding to continue her life as it is.