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

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Tolkienista · 04/04/2026 20:04

My mother moved into a care home in August 2024, the cost per week (as a self funder £945) Last April the fees went up to (£1,010) per week. In the last week the fees have gone up to (£1,050) per week. It's an excellent place, her room is lovely and well furnished, great carers too who look after her so well.
It genuinely feels like our second home.

In all honesty , never thought we'd make it to this latest fees increase. She's been on end of life care for the last 6/7 weeks , but has remained stable, although she's really frail and weak.
And so we've entered this new round of fees.

I think we're very lucky that her fees are in this region close to £1,000 per week .
How are others faring?

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user7463246787 · 04/04/2026 20:47

4yrs ago we checked out of ours - it was £1600 a week, but that was residential not nursing. Fabulous place that was worth every penny. I’d be surprised if it’s under 2k a week now, if not more. We are South Midlands.

Squirrelchops1 · 04/04/2026 20:46

I can accept the fees if the home reinvests into the home but when you see poorly paid staff and crap facilities but the owners £100k car outside it is rather galling.
It's absolutely shit the pay care staff get...for the most important job out there.

DirtyGertiefromno30 · 04/04/2026 20:45

You shouldn't have to pay for the care home if you are on end of life care .

Rumplestiltz · 04/04/2026 20:42

if these prices continue in the long term, I have no idea how a generation with far less generous pensions by and large will afford this. It seems an issue no-one wants to engage with. I agree that at one level it’s worth every penny to make sure your loved one is well cared for, but let’s not kid ourselves that the people (carers) who are making sure your mum/dad is well looked after aren’t being paid a pittance in the process. Care homes are big businesses making a huge profit and that isn’t being spent on staff salaries but on shareholder dividends a lot of the time.

DustyMaiden · 04/04/2026 20:37

£1700 pw Essex worth every penny

ShoopShoopBaDoop · 04/04/2026 20:31

Watching with interest as we are looking at care homes ATM for mum. She will be self paying and most of those we have looked at up till now are around £1300-1500 per week.

We are paying around £1100 per week currently for at home care (3 hours per day) .

Blueuggboots · 04/04/2026 20:27

£1470 a week…she moves in on Tuesday….

Lastofthesummerwines · 04/04/2026 20:18

These figures are actually scary. And they say nursing homes make no money!!! Come off it... Most of the carers are on minimum wage or just over as well! A lot of ppl are fiddling old folk out of their life savings and homes!

KolaKoalaKan · 04/04/2026 20:17

Just under £2700 per week North West. Minus FNC. Fortunately it’s covered by a PI claim. Previous place was closer to £2k per week but they couldn’t meet her needs and she needed a higher level of care.

1990sMum · 04/04/2026 20:15

£8,200. Just outside London.

It looks lovely but the lack of care is shocking.

youalright · 04/04/2026 20:14

My nans 4750 pcm. They're insane prices especially considering how shit they pay their staff

Chatsbots · 04/04/2026 20:12

Rural ish area north west - 14something per week, I think for Mil, who has dementia...nice place, worth it but still very sad for her as she wants to go home.

Diamond7272 · 04/04/2026 20:10

Nursing home surrey £8150 pcm

Rumplestiltz · 04/04/2026 20:08

6500 pcm, London, and that is after the nursing component the nhs finally agreed to pay for which works out about 1000 a month. Before was paying 8k pcm at a different home. Nice but not luxury. By the time my mum with advanced dementia, double incontinece, no speech or communication capacity has died she will have spent the best part of a million on care home fees. She went into a home in 2016.

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