Cost of Nursing Home

[MrsFunnyFanny]

Please can anyone give me real examples of what you’ve had to pay (or what the costs to the local authority) were of a nursing home place? Thank you.

It will depend on how much your person has in savings/ how much care they need....a lot of variables

My gran is 102 and has been in a private nursing home for 8 years. £6000ish per month for 8 years.... yep, every penny pretty much from her house and estate gone.

My friend's mum is paying £50k per year.

My mum will need to go into care soon, she has dementia and we have been quoted anything between £50-100k per year. Many homes have also stated that we need to provide proof that we can cover at least 2 years worth of fees.

Most people I know who have been in care for more than a year have had to sell their homes to fund the ongoing cost.

MIL 80 £2,000 per week dementia care home

How long is a price of string? What level of care is needed? Where in the country LA were paying about £990 per week for MIL in 2023. She was wheelchair bound, incontinent and non verbal but stable and able/willing to feed herself. People with dementia and a risk of wandering or who have aggressive behaviour will need more specialised care. MIL had to part fund her place from savings and pension. I think fully self funding was from £1200 at that home. The home FIL wanted MIL to go to was from £1500 per week and would have required a family top up as they didn't accept LA rates.

DM- £1800 a week( very swish private care home) Used up all her savings and now funded from the equity from her house which has recently been sold. I believe the social services start to contribute once the assets dip below about £ 22.5k.

Near us nursing care (as opposed to regular care home) is around £2200 per week. Expecting that to rise with NI etc going up.

But this provides more of less 1:1 care so will depend on what is needed.

The home can claim some nhs funding for the nursing part.
For a lux home 2200
Check locally and ask them
1500upwards probably per week

The LA will only pay when assets diminish to around £23k and then is it a sliding scale to about £14k. They will want to use any pension and benefits over a certain amount to contribute to fees as well. But the person you are enquiring for will need an independent care act assessment, followed by a financial assessment to assess what they need and who pays, what.

If it comes under a dismissing set of NHS criteria as being serious enough for NHS support you can get CHC or NHS nursing care. This is like unicorn droppings though.

Are you looking for a home, like ppl say, many variables.

My Dad is paying 1100 pw for a respite place in a care home (not nursing).

I have access to the care record as POA and can see where that level of money goes!

I know many cost a lot more. Presumably nursing homes pay higher wages as they have qualified nurses on the staff rota 24/7.

Have a look on Care home.co.uk - you can specify you're looking for nursing care and put in your postcode and it'll show you local options, many of which will have an indicative price listed.

24/7 live-in carer £700 a week, for my 95 year old grandmother. She needed help with her mobility (hoist) and washing, dressing, toileting etc. The carers did all her meals, all the house cleaning, clothes washing too. They were amazing. They provided 24/7 care, they would work 7am-1pm, have a 3 hour break, and then work again 5-9pm. But they were in the house so if my grandmother needed someone they could help. I would totally recommend if you’re able to instead of a nursing home. We tried a nursing home but she would press the bell to get help going to the toilet and sometimes someone wouldn’t come to her for an hour.

£1850. a week no dementia or medical needs just help getting around washed and dressed. This is residential.

My Dad had an assessment to see if the nhs would pay for all his car ie. the nhs nursing part and the social care part. The result was that the nhs would pay for his nursing but Dad would have to cover the social care part with his own funds as he had a lot of savings. In total, without any help, he would have to pay £1600 a month in a standard, no frills nursing home. He was in an assessment bed in the nursing home and should have only been there for 4 weeks. The assessment took that long he was there for 4 months!

It can varying wildly depending on where you are etc

We were looking at double that at £1400 a week for a live-in carer, more on bank holidays. Living costs would all have been on top of that, which made the nursing home at £1500 a week look like a bargain.

@MrsFunnyFanny if you scour the local authority website you should find a published list of rates the local authority pay (if they have assessed and their assessment is care). When looking at nursing homes, find out if they take local authority funded as well as self-funded.

My mum’s dementia care home charges £1200 a week to self funders and Social Services pays £800 a week for the residents that they fund. South East but not one of the wealthier areas.

Those fees are horrific! I knew they were expensive but not like this

Nursing home £1600 a week, although they said they could apply from £200 from the NHS.

Care home £1300-£1600 a week for dementia care.

When was this? I'm not sure that would
even cover minimum wage now plus
this set up only works if a second carer isn't needed eg the elderly person can be left on their own and doesn't need assistance at night.

There is massive regional variation in typical care home fees due to variations in staff availability and costs, facilities and the level of care your relation needs. You can check out the rates your local authorities pay by googling. Try Age UK paying for care advice. Typically local authority rates will be at the lower end of what you might pay - in care homes the more you pay the better the quality and facilities. But it's very important to check out the culture and quality for yourself. Nursing care for higher dependency and acuity of needs is more expensive obviously than residential care and dementia care the highest.

Things to look out for: level of inquiry about the needs of the individual and their preferences and personality; the openness and flexibility for visitors; your trust in the personality and approach of the care home manager and team; bells and smells - a very good indicator of quality; access - to doctors, hairdressers, newspapers, entertainment and activity, to religious/spiritual needs (if relevant).

It depends on the type of care the person needs. Residential, dementia, nursing, nursing plus dementia.

My mother pays about £1200 a week (south east) for high needs dementia care. Once the person's savings fall to the threshhold of £23k the LA start paying. The person's pensions are taken to pay part of the weekly fees and the LA pay the rest.

How did you find them, @LavenderFields7 ?

Late Mil was paying £700 per week 3 years ago for nursing care.
Late DM was paying £895 per week for dementia care 2 years ago.

I believe those prices have nearly doubled since their passing.

My DF 95 is in a nursing care home in north London and has high acuity needs - he is bed bound and mostly delusional. It costs £1900 per week and is likely to go up in April as Employers NIC rises.