Does anyone have any experience of

[Abigboydiditandranaway]

taking the Adult Social Care Allowance as a payment direct at all please? DM has a degenerative illness and needs more care than \ican provide but is living in a retirement complex where services needed can be bought in. ASC have been dragging their feet over an assessment but I'm confident that because of the state of DM's health it won't be a massive concern. I'm a bit concerned that if DM takes the allowance as a payment it might be a problem in the future.

You mean direct payments

If you go to her local authority (county council) website to adult services section, there will be information on there about due to payments that will talk you through it and whether she might be eligible

Direct payments (sorry not 'due to payments', phone went funny)

Direct payments are a method of commissioning care for assessed eligible needs under the Care Act , that her local authority may choose in her situation

They will look at that in / after her assessment of needs, there's lots of rules around it

We got direct payments for our parents, to provide live-in care at home. It took a lot of battling, though, and advice from Age UK about the legalities.

Not sure of the position in a retirement complex - is any care provided?

The Adult Care team were initially very open to providing the apparently standard 4 visits a day, and when we said that wasn't enough started talking about a care home. And repeatedly told us that Adult Care would never fund overnight care. We then found out that this was factually incorrect. Our parents were very adamant that they did not want to move out of their home.

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

We got direct payments for our parents, to provide live-in care at home. It took a lot of battling, though, and advice from Age UK about the legalities.

Not sure of the position in a retirement complex - is any care provided?

The Adult Care team were initially very open to providing the apparently standard 4 visits a day, and when we said that wasn't enough started talking about a care home. And repeatedly told us that Adult Care would never fund overnight care. We then found out that this was factually incorrect. Our parents were very adamant that they did not want to move out of their home.

You would likely have got live in carer funded due to both parents needs or something in their assessment that stood out as unusual. Adult health and care are required to take cost and resources into account when meeting assessed eligible needs .

Live in care can be 150%- 300% cost of a care home placement spending to meet the persons needs and it is public funds so they have to be equitable & fairly apply across the board. ASD do not usually fund night time care in someone's home but there will always be exceptions based on individuals needs and situations.