Hi everyone
I thought I'd write this separately from my other two threads which you may or may not have seen ('Crisis point after 9 days in care home' and 'Dad thinks I'm his wife and acts quite inappropriately')
We had my dads CHC funding assessment today at the Care home and I can't believe that it went so well.
After reading lots of posts about funding being turned down etc I had little expectations of my dad being eligible, but the assessors have agreed that he is eligible and it will be referred to the panel, which will take place on Monday.
When they arrived my dad followed us into the room and they said it would be OK for him to sit in, but he could leave if he would get upset when we start talking about him. Whilst we waited for the care home nurse to join us with dads files, they started to ask dad some simple questions and believe it or not he seemed to answer yes to them in context and I was thinking but he's not supposed to be able to understand or communicate well but here he was answering them and looking like he knew what they had said. But that only lasted less than a minute and suddenly dad was mumbling about something totally unrelated, they couldn't understand a word he said and next minute he tells them a boat just went past the window. They then soon realised dad answering yes to questions meant nothing.
We went through each of the 12 points with the nurse asking lots of questions and gathering the evidence and then she would suggest what score she felt should be given to dad and asked us what did we think and if we agreed. We actually agreed with each of her decisions and in some cases she even higher-ed his score as she felt it was more appropriate. He scored Severe for his Behaviour and High for both Cognition and Communication and mostly for the others it was Medium or Low.
Adding up all the scores she said she had no problem referring dad to the panel mainly based on his two high scores for Cognition and Communication. The panel will be meeting on Monday and then I will get a formal letter with the decision.
She said funding would start from today. It would be reviewed in 3 months and then yearly. But she said as it is being awarded based on cognition and communication these will never get better only worse so it's unlikely we will lose the funding.
Dad sat throughout all this either nodding off or just saying nothing, which again confirmed to them that he has no understanding of what is going on around him, so in a way dad being there also went in our favour.
I just can't believe it, I had no pre-conceived notions or expectations that my dad would be eligible, I was told by the home and the SW that we should apply and all I can say now is that I am so happy that we did, I can't tell you how relieved I am and how much of a weight of my mind it will be.
Thank you all for your support on here.
Thanks.
Elle x
I thought I'd write this separately from my other two threads which you may or may not have seen ('Crisis point after 9 days in care home' and 'Dad thinks I'm his wife and acts quite inappropriately')
We had my dads CHC funding assessment today at the Care home and I can't believe that it went so well.
After reading lots of posts about funding being turned down etc I had little expectations of my dad being eligible, but the assessors have agreed that he is eligible and it will be referred to the panel, which will take place on Monday.
When they arrived my dad followed us into the room and they said it would be OK for him to sit in, but he could leave if he would get upset when we start talking about him. Whilst we waited for the care home nurse to join us with dads files, they started to ask dad some simple questions and believe it or not he seemed to answer yes to them in context and I was thinking but he's not supposed to be able to understand or communicate well but here he was answering them and looking like he knew what they had said. But that only lasted less than a minute and suddenly dad was mumbling about something totally unrelated, they couldn't understand a word he said and next minute he tells them a boat just went past the window. They then soon realised dad answering yes to questions meant nothing.
We went through each of the 12 points with the nurse asking lots of questions and gathering the evidence and then she would suggest what score she felt should be given to dad and asked us what did we think and if we agreed. We actually agreed with each of her decisions and in some cases she even higher-ed his score as she felt it was more appropriate. He scored Severe for his Behaviour and High for both Cognition and Communication and mostly for the others it was Medium or Low.
Adding up all the scores she said she had no problem referring dad to the panel mainly based on his two high scores for Cognition and Communication. The panel will be meeting on Monday and then I will get a formal letter with the decision.
She said funding would start from today. It would be reviewed in 3 months and then yearly. But she said as it is being awarded based on cognition and communication these will never get better only worse so it's unlikely we will lose the funding.
Dad sat throughout all this either nodding off or just saying nothing, which again confirmed to them that he has no understanding of what is going on around him, so in a way dad being there also went in our favour.
I just can't believe it, I had no pre-conceived notions or expectations that my dad would be eligible, I was told by the home and the SW that we should apply and all I can say now is that I am so happy that we did, I can't tell you how relieved I am and how much of a weight of my mind it will be.
Thank you all for your support on here.
Thanks.
Elle x