At the age of 82 my already frail mum spent nearly 3 weeks in hospital and came home with a reablement package. I was already her carer, doing all her meals, cleaning, shopping, acting as her hands and feet I suppose.
Unfortunately her mobility never recovered from the unrelated illness - she was already disabled with arthritis and she was in hospital with a perforated ulcer and sepsis. She had real struggles with toileting, she needed a wheelchair to get her to and from the bathroom and the illness actually marked the beginning of her cognitive decline.
The reablement package was no real help to us. They got her up in the morning and would help her change into her bed clothes at night but she (quite reasonably) did not want to go to bed at 7.00 p.m. when she had no tv in her bedroom and her eyesight was too poor to read. She also started to get herself dressed in the morning and the carers weren't really interested when I tried to explain that she was not washing, just dressing herself to show that they were not needed.
So after a month she was signed off as something of a success when in truth she was much less able than she had been before she fell ill.
That was in the August, by the October I was desperate for help from Social Services and she eventually had a care package of two calls per day that started in the beginning of March.
I was at the point where I was needing more help - she was getting more frail mentally and physically - when she had a fall and ended up in hospital where it became apparent that she needed more help than could be provided at home.
After being ill mum had two years at home through the pandemic which meant we had a lot of quality time together so I'm glad she didn't go into a home there and then but I have to say she did not get any better, only worse.
You might want to ask Mumsnet to move this post to the Elderly Parents board. It has been a godsend for me over the past couple of years.