My mother has just come out of hospital after a seizure of unknown cause. Before they released her back home to my dad, social services carried out a care plan and now have carers attending my mum 4 times a day to change/feed her, get her up and put her to bed. She is in very late stages dementia and can’t do anything for herself. Before now my dad has looked after my mum mainly by himself with no problems but the hospital/social services wouldn’t discharge her without a care plan in place. A financial assessment has been done and they have declared that my dad pretty much has to pay for most of the care out of his own money (around £500 a week). He thinks this is excessive and doesn’t really see the need of the carers – or at least having them come four times a day.
So what we really basically want to know is:
1) Is it my dad’s decision whether or not to have the carers attend every day or at all? Nothing has been said about my dad not being capable and social services did say he could “scale down the amount of care after a bit if he wanted”. He has been happily coping OK for the past 5 years.
2) Although he does have saving s and own his own house – we thought there was something in the assessment whereby if the person being assessed has critical care needs (my mother can’t eat, walk, change herself or go to the toilet) that her care would be automatically paid for? Or do I have that wrong?
Any information or similar experiences would be gratefully received.
Thanks!
So what we really basically want to know is:
1) Is it my dad’s decision whether or not to have the carers attend every day or at all? Nothing has been said about my dad not being capable and social services did say he could “scale down the amount of care after a bit if he wanted”. He has been happily coping OK for the past 5 years.
2) Although he does have saving s and own his own house – we thought there was something in the assessment whereby if the person being assessed has critical care needs (my mother can’t eat, walk, change herself or go to the toilet) that her care would be automatically paid for? Or do I have that wrong?
Any information or similar experiences would be gratefully received.
Thanks!