Adult residential care - where to start

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Posting in the hope of any pearls of wisdom as I'm truly ignorant on this. Have an adult (not elderly) family member who is severely disabled but lives independently. Has a mixture of parents and council funded carers regularly visiting to support. While care needs are starting to increase, parents are getting on and feels like a longer term plan needed.Thinking longer term residential care will be needed. But is there any hope of this? Are waiting lists hopelessly long?

If you are going to pay independently you simply need to go round and visit homes and put relative on waiting list. If they will need social services to pay then they need to be involved. In our area of London social services will only pay if you have dementia.

The starting point would be a review of their needs via a social services assessment.