Just out of interest, what are your elderly parents care home fees?

And this is why we are all being crippled with high Council tax bills coz greedy care home owners are draining the system dry . They are making money off the back of vulnerable people and shouldn’t be allowed . Same with the care homes for kids and disabled adults.

My parents street is being bought up by people who are turning house after house into care homes for disabled and vulnerable adults. They are building extention after extention onto these houses which is probably paid for by the council. Where does it end?

Quite a lot of councils are bringing homes back in house, at least for children, and the government is really pushing for it too.

My Mum's was £80,000 per year. Nice care home but she wasn't on the highest level of nursing care. No dementia. She only needed help with showering.

I work with a lot of care home owners. Smaller businesses that own anywhere from 2 right up to 20+. They have all done exceptionally well and have made millions over the years.

I know one owner who brought a care home. It failed. He somehow managed to buy another. It also failed. Is third one was a success and he now has 14. His kids and grandkids never have to work. He knew there is a chronic undersupply of available beds so was persistent in making it in the sector.

They all turn up to meetings in brand new unbelievably expensive cars. Once they have a good manager in place they spend all their time at the golf course or finding a way to buy another.

There should be public outrage at how the taxpayer is being shafted royally by private care operators.

This counts for adult and childrens social care. I met one childrens care operator who was charging his local authority £27,000 per week to look after one child with very high complex needs.

The local authorities need better negotiaters or start building their own homes. It would be far cheaper long term but there is no long term plans. Politics and policies are short term now. I get so wound up over this topic. And that's not even taking into account how many private care home owners could pay their staff so much more and that British care homes are such a cash cow (i.e. UK tak payer) that American private equity firms can't buy enough of them. Absolute disgrace.

https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/money-work-and-benefits/nhs-continuing-healthcare/

If she is officially on ‘end of life’ care she may be eligible for continuing healthcare funding. My stepfather contributed towards his fees but as soon as it was deemed that he was placed on EOL care by a doctor, he no longer paid any fees.

£6300 per month

My dad was paying £6300 in May 2023 just before he died. He was residential, no nursing or dementia care and was in a really nice care home, they looked after him brilliantly. He was very happy there.

Think it's probably nearer to £7000 now if he was still there.

South coast.

Wow, these fees are eye watering! I'm not in the UK and the fees here aren't as high as they seem to be there. Residents are also allowed to keep a decent sum of money when the government starts paying most of the fees.

Jeez theses costs are terrifying. Like someone said up thread why is this not being discussed more as a huge problem for society.

From the report I linked:

"Care is costly in the UK, with 70 per cent of local authority budgets spent on funding care services. Yet our analysis shows that in just three UK regions, private care providers extracted more than £250 million in profit over three years. Over a third of these companies are owned by private equity firms, organisations registered in tax havens, or entities that fall into both those brackets."

My mum never had to go into care but a friend did and his was £1800/week (just outside Edinburgh) and it was dreadful. A friend’s aunt is in a deluxe one in the SE and it’s nearly £3k per week.

£1,300 a week, East of England - care and food good, building a bit tatty.

Honestly if I have to spend all my money on care because I’m demented, I’d want to be put to sleep. It’s a disgrace that I can’t choose.

DM’s cost £1900 a week for a couple of years, that was a specialist centre because of her particular needs. In the last two years we were able to move her to somewhere more mainstream nearer us, which was also ‘only’ £1650 a week. I would say that she should never have survived to live any of that time. I can only hope that as we’re generally less healthy than that generation, that we don’t end up in that situation.

£2600 per week.

I'm so sorry your mother is on end of life

I actually think end of life care in this area, Southeast, would be a lot more expensive. That sounds like the cost we paid when my dad was just resident but kind of an active resident, so he was on respite and got out

Mil was £1700 pw for nursing care. The tax payer paid for it all, bar her tiny pension that was about £500 a month. So a grand total of £442,000 before she died. She was doubly incontinent, dementia, immobile, unable to communicate for most of it but at least the family knew that she was clean, warm, fed and safe.

If your mum is on end of life care then she gets the care for free.

End of life care should be free,the care home would know this.You need to arrange an urgent assessment.

• NHS Continuing Healthcare (Fast Track): If a person's health is deteriorating quickly and they are in the last year of life, a fast-track assessment can be completed, usually within 48 hours. This fully funds care costs, including care home fees.

We’re paying £1650 per week near Ascot.

Agreed. OP, please check this - FNC or CHC may well be avaliable if she's on end of life are.

Mum died at the end of 2020 by which time her care fees, in south Devon, were just shy of £6k/mth.