I wish to share this story with readers as a possible ray of hope. My MIL 84 severe D has been in care for a few years. She had her property sold to help pay care home fees following failings of SS. She has now been awarded CHC. I have been working with the GP and the CHC who have agreed to fund a package of care, carers 24/7 for MIL to live in her own new property. This has been working our extremely well these first 2 weeks and clearly MIL benefits from the 1-1 support and a better quality of life. Her wishes and best interests is to live in her own property to include end of life care. I work closely with the care agency and I am so pleased that everything is working so well. carers do all washing, cooking, cleaning as well personal care and providing prescribed meds. The GP visits as required. I hope this may benefit readers is some way.
It is always good to hear of circumstances such as this where it works out well all round. Not only has your MIL got CHC (would be interesting to hear how she scored to get this btw) but also has her wish, which is to have care in her own home.
However, it does beg the question - what would have happened if after selling her home to pay care home fees for several years, there had not been enough money left to buy a new home in which to get this care? This could easily be the case with the high cost of care home fees (around 50K per year in some cases). Some people let out their empty property rather than sell it, but that does not always cover fees, and a sale is often necessary.
I wonder what SS' reaction would be when they expect someone to sell their property to pay care home fees, if that person turned round and said they would rather hang on to it in case they should ever need to come back to it!! This story would be a good example to give as proof this can happen!