Nursing home funding?

[ReallyNotHappy76]

Hello - posting for traffic

My mother is currently in an untenable situation in a nursing home and I want to move her. I have found a lovely place where she would be safe but - although equipped for her needs - is not nursing.

Her social worker has said that she would lose her nursing funding if she went there and we'd have to pay the fees. At £11/1200 a week we can't afford that...is there anybody who knows how social services funding works/if there is a way around this to get her into the new place?

Apologies for vagueness - I don't want to out myself

Endoftheline, I'm ever so sorry about your condition but please don't catastrophise a situation I'm currently living regarding I'd rather be dead than that'. I'm potentially being oversensitive but the whole situation is keeping me awake at night with worry

I hope and pray we will have a Dignitas clinic in the UK asap. The thing is, if you haven't got the mental capacity this would be no good anyway. I worry about this too. My mums dementia came on all of a sudden, I think if I go the same way they'll be no time to arrange this for myself.

Sorry my previous message was written before your last one endofthelinefinally and ReallyNotHappy76
Sorry for the situations you are in.

Age UK give very good advice and support.

Some care homes will accept LA funding rates some won't. Where I live, the average price for residential (not nursing) homes is about £900 pw. LA benchmark is about £400. If the care home doesn't have any LA beds, families need to top up the difference. That might be what the social worker meant.

OP go back to the social worker and ask.him/her to explain. It may be that, although both homes charge the same for privately funded residents, but the home your relative is in has some beds at LA rate (ie the LA is paying £400 pw not £1100) whereas the other one isn't.

It's possible that the SW might have meant that you you will have to pay the difference in cost, if there is one.

Example. Nursing home is 650 pw. Minus the 156 funded nursing care which is paid for by the NHS, equals 500 pw.

Residential home is 650pw. So may be actually more expensive than nursing.

Social care will choose to pay the most cost effective option to meet needs, so if her needs can be met for 500 pw, and you want her to move to a 650 per week placement then you will need to top up the difference.

Sounds to me like you need to get more information from the SW to understand what they said.

I agree, Age UK are good.

I hope and pray we will have a Dignitas clinic in the UK asap

I think the fact you link that with difficulties around finding and funding decent care is all the more reason I hope and pray we never have one.

I think the fact you link that with difficulties around finding and funding decent care is all the more reason I hope and pray we never have one. You might think differently if/when your time comes.

Can we please leave dignitas off this thread, please :(

Tess
I have already apologised and asked for my post to be deleted.
Please dont upset the OP further.