28 days free care to decide if she likes it. What next?

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Quick question, after the 28 days of free care is there any meeting etc or if happy does social worker just agree the placement and we pay for the next month etc?

Is this “free care to decide if she likes it” (something I’ve not come across) or is it reablement?

@MereDintofPandiculation I was told- second hand though- that it's to see if she likes it? So there is social service involvement and shes gone from hospital after a fall straight to here after she decided and we all agree that residential care is needed. We're hoping she settles and likes it and we're hoping she will still long term. The arrangement was made with her 65 year old son in charge- hes quick stressed and mixed up as to what's going on though! Dh awaiting POA for this reason amongst others.

That sounds like reablement. They’ll be assessing her day by day, how much help she needs. I’ve only got experience of reablement at home where they moved very quickly from 4 visits to 3 because he wasn’t letting them get him up because 10 am was to early for him. Then they decided he would continue to need care, and care started being provided by a Council contracted care agency instead of a NHS fund rehab team. Contact with us was via the OT. No meetings that we were invited to

Ah no dates showing to these posts

But yes that sounds like a discharge to assess (reablement) bed which is paid for by CCG for first period they decide upon usually up to 4- 6 weeks depending on LA and local arrangements. After then her care home becomes chargeable if she decides to stay in a care home and it may involve a move. She will be financially assessed - if she doesn't obviously have over threshold assets - do look up her local authority charging policies which should be available online. Whoever is involved with her current reablement bed (usually a link case worker or social worker) will be able to assess for future ongoing needs and explain this all to you.