Hello,
I wonder if anyone can help please?
I have POA for finance and property for my grandmother who has been in a care home due to Alzheimers for almost 2 years. We never chose the home, she was placed there by social services after being sectioned. It was outside her area, but the only one that that would take her as she was physically aggressive at that time. She was initially funded by the CCG, but after she calmed down and was reassessed the funding was withdraw, and she has been self-funding due to the amount of her savings.
Fast forward to now and her savings are running out, so I've been in touch with social services from the area that placed her. They are arguing with the local authority in the place she was living in over who should fund her, but the social worker from the one who placed her is working on the assumption it's them ....
Meanwhile the local authority doesn't own any homes and only pays a certain amount towards the care home. The rest has to be paid to the home by family/friends - approx £400 a month. The social worker said a deferred payment will not be accepted as it's to the home not the local authority. I don't have this money personally spare to pay the fees.
My grandmother has a husband she's been married to for over 15 years. He doesn't consider himself next of kin and doesn't seem to want to get involved. He's refusing to pay anything towards her fees (he could easily afford to) and he doesn't want to move out of the 4 bed home they lived in even though he is struggling, as he's in his late 80s too. The house is in my grandmother's name.
Someone will have to sign re paying fees when she is moved, and I can't afford to pay this personally so can't sign. She only has savings to last until June at the rate the current home is eating them, and then there will be literally no money - apart from what is tied up in the house. I'm not sleeping and worrying myself sick about where the money is going to come from. Is there anything I can to do to encourage her husband move to free up some money as he won't contribute?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
I wonder if anyone can help please?
I have POA for finance and property for my grandmother who has been in a care home due to Alzheimers for almost 2 years. We never chose the home, she was placed there by social services after being sectioned. It was outside her area, but the only one that that would take her as she was physically aggressive at that time. She was initially funded by the CCG, but after she calmed down and was reassessed the funding was withdraw, and she has been self-funding due to the amount of her savings.
Fast forward to now and her savings are running out, so I've been in touch with social services from the area that placed her. They are arguing with the local authority in the place she was living in over who should fund her, but the social worker from the one who placed her is working on the assumption it's them ....
Meanwhile the local authority doesn't own any homes and only pays a certain amount towards the care home. The rest has to be paid to the home by family/friends - approx £400 a month. The social worker said a deferred payment will not be accepted as it's to the home not the local authority. I don't have this money personally spare to pay the fees.
My grandmother has a husband she's been married to for over 15 years. He doesn't consider himself next of kin and doesn't seem to want to get involved. He's refusing to pay anything towards her fees (he could easily afford to) and he doesn't want to move out of the 4 bed home they lived in even though he is struggling, as he's in his late 80s too. The house is in my grandmother's name.
Someone will have to sign re paying fees when she is moved, and I can't afford to pay this personally so can't sign. She only has savings to last until June at the rate the current home is eating them, and then there will be literally no money - apart from what is tied up in the house. I'm not sleeping and worrying myself sick about where the money is going to come from. Is there anything I can to do to encourage her husband move to free up some money as he won't contribute?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.