Just out of interest, what are your elderly parents care home fees?

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My mother moved into a care home in August 2024, the cost per week (as a self funder £945) Last April the fees went up to (£1,010) per week. In the last week the fees have gone up to (£1,050) per week. It's an excellent place, her room is lovely and well furnished, great carers too who look after her so well.
It genuinely feels like our second home.

In all honesty , never thought we'd make it to this latest fees increase. She's been on end of life care for the last 6/7 weeks , but has remained stable, although she's really frail and weak.
And so we've entered this new round of fees.

I think we're very lucky that her fees are in this region close to £1,000 per week .
How are others faring?

6500 pcm, London, and that is after the nursing component the nhs finally agreed to pay for which works out about 1000 a month. Before was paying 8k pcm at a different home. Nice but not luxury. By the time my mum with advanced dementia, double incontinece, no speech or communication capacity has died she will have spent the best part of a million on care home fees. She went into a home in 2016.

Nursing home surrey £8150 pcm

Rural ish area north west - 14something per week, I think for Mil, who has dementia...nice place, worth it but still very sad for her as she wants to go home.

My nans 4750 pcm. They're insane prices especially considering how shit they pay their staff

£8,200. Just outside London.

It looks lovely but the lack of care is shocking.

Just under £2700 per week North West. Minus FNC. Fortunately it’s covered by a PI claim. Previous place was closer to £2k per week but they couldn’t meet her needs and she needed a higher level of care.

These figures are actually scary. And they say nursing homes make no money!!! Come off it... Most of the carers are on minimum wage or just over as well! A lot of ppl are fiddling old folk out of their life savings and homes!

£1470 a week…she moves in on Tuesday….

Watching with interest as we are looking at care homes ATM for mum. She will be self paying and most of those we have looked at up till now are around £1300-1500 per week.

We are paying around £1100 per week currently for at home care (3 hours per day) .

Some people are making money out of care homes, this is a great read, for such things: https://cles.org.uk/ending-extraction-in-the-uk-care-system/

£1700 pw Essex worth every penny

if these prices continue in the long term, I have no idea how a generation with far less generous pensions by and large will afford this. It seems an issue no-one wants to engage with. I agree that at one level it’s worth every penny to make sure your loved one is well cared for, but let’s not kid ourselves that the people (carers) who are making sure your mum/dad is well looked after aren’t being paid a pittance in the process. Care homes are big businesses making a huge profit and that isn’t being spent on staff salaries but on shareholder dividends a lot of the time.

You shouldn't have to pay for the care home if you are on end of life care .

I can accept the fees if the home reinvests into the home but when you see poorly paid staff and crap facilities but the owners £100k car outside it is rather galling.
It's absolutely shit the pay care staff get...for the most important job out there.

4yrs ago we checked out of ours - it was £1600 a week, but that was residential not nursing. Fabulous place that was worth every penny. I’d be surprised if it’s under 2k a week now, if not more. We are South Midlands.

Mum died at the end of 2020 by which time her care fees, in south Devon, were just shy of £6k/mth.

Agreed. OP, please check this - FNC or CHC may well be avaliable if she's on end of life are.

We’re paying £1650 per week near Ascot.

End of life care should be free,the care home would know this.You need to arrange an urgent assessment.

• NHS Continuing Healthcare (Fast Track): If a person's health is deteriorating quickly and they are in the last year of life, a fast-track assessment can be completed, usually within 48 hours. This fully funds care costs, including care home fees.

If your mum is on end of life care then she gets the care for free.

Thank you to all those who have mentioned end of life care being free, honestly never heard of this. Will definitely look into this when I'm next in.

Mil was £1700 pw for nursing care. The tax payer paid for it all, bar her tiny pension that was about £500 a month. So a grand total of £442,000 before she died. She was doubly incontinent, dementia, immobile, unable to communicate for most of it but at least the family knew that she was clean, warm, fed and safe.

I'm so sorry your mother is on end of life

I actually think end of life care in this area, Southeast, would be a lot more expensive. That sounds like the cost we paid when my dad was just resident but kind of an active resident, so he was on respite and got out

£2600 per week.

DM’s cost £1900 a week for a couple of years, that was a specialist centre because of her particular needs. In the last two years we were able to move her to somewhere more mainstream nearer us, which was also ‘only’ £1650 a week. I would say that she should never have survived to live any of that time. I can only hope that as we’re generally less healthy than that generation, that we don’t end up in that situation.