Nursing Home Fees.

[gness]

I know there never seems to be a simple answer to this but.....

My mother was in a Care Home.....alzheimer's...and unable to care for herself. This was being funded from the sale of her house and savings until her money reduced to £14.000 which it hasn't yet done.
Last year she had to be moved to a Nursing Home as the Care Home couldn't cope....she is very aggressive and doubly incontinent.
We had another care assessment last month....these are fairly frequent... but I now have had an invitation to attend an NHS assessment to see whether her fees should be funded by them.
I was under the impression we just kept paying til her money reached the limit of what she is allowed to keep.
Does anyone know if the rules about funding change when care becomes nursing?

Thanks..G.

[Ann]

I can't believe they haven't found a cure yet for this terrible condition. It really scares me as, as Anne has said, none of us know what the future holds for us.

[EDDIE51]

Get hold of AgeUk they have specialist advisers who will help with the assesment.
You stand a far higher chance of getting funding with them on your side.

[EDDIE51]

AgeUk web site
http://www.ageuk.org.uk/?gclid=CPeLhq2H8r0CFUoCwwod6hkAkg
Use it.

[gness]

Thank you for all your answers and advice which my brother and I mulled over before the meeting today.

As we anticipated she is not to receive NHS funding despite scoring moderate or high...and in one case severe...in all the tick boxes.

She is completely immobile....doubly incontinent....no cognitive skills....no longer knows to eat or drink...feeding takes about an hour...long term memory has now gone too...and other problems but they are all predictable and she's fairly compliant....because she can't move....

If she was unpredictable and didn't comply she would have qualified, but she does qualify for social care funding....which, with her pension covers her care.
If she had qualified she would have been able to keep her pension which seems odd to me. Why shouldn't her pension go towards her care? But hey, I don't make these rules.

Though why, after ninety years of being crazy and unpredictable she decides to change now.....☺...Still..that's my mother....unpredictable!

Gx