Hi guys
I'm trying to find a care home for my parents with dementia. The local care home gets quite poor reviews average/weak care commission ratings and changes hands frequently. They live in a rural community in Scotland that is hundreds of miles from anywhere else (and me).
I'm trying to balance the pros and cons of moving them to a home near me in London (insanely expensive comparatively, lose the local people, and very disorientating but I can see them every week multiple times), vs choosing this local home (extended family are there but won't visit like I would and no massive disruptive journey to move in, they know the town - been there their whole lives, and very similar people who work in the home BUT the care home poorly rated) or perhaps a city in Scotland that's better rated that I can get to in the space of 5 hours or so - although how often I could achieve this in real terms is a worry.
My experience of live-in carers in the last 18 months is that they are universally pretty poor and often extremely strange even when you pay through the nose for a company outstanding. So I don't know how much ratings really mean - I expect this will be awful regardless.
I think that one of the major deciding factors will be cost - because I would LOVE to have them near me and see them every week/several times a week but if it rinses their money too quickly and we end up moving to a state home within a couple of years, then that could be bad in the long term. London care homes seem to quote 2000-3000 pounds per head per week, whereas the local care home quotes 1000-1200 pounds per head per week.
Is there a list of individual care home costs somewhere? individually contacting them all is like pulling teeth as they want to send you the brochure but hide the price list. If people are happy to share their location and costs that would be really useful as this is starting to feel like monopoly money.
I'm trying to find a care home for my parents with dementia. The local care home gets quite poor reviews average/weak care commission ratings and changes hands frequently. They live in a rural community in Scotland that is hundreds of miles from anywhere else (and me).
I'm trying to balance the pros and cons of moving them to a home near me in London (insanely expensive comparatively, lose the local people, and very disorientating but I can see them every week multiple times), vs choosing this local home (extended family are there but won't visit like I would and no massive disruptive journey to move in, they know the town - been there their whole lives, and very similar people who work in the home BUT the care home poorly rated) or perhaps a city in Scotland that's better rated that I can get to in the space of 5 hours or so - although how often I could achieve this in real terms is a worry.
My experience of live-in carers in the last 18 months is that they are universally pretty poor and often extremely strange even when you pay through the nose for a company outstanding. So I don't know how much ratings really mean - I expect this will be awful regardless.
I think that one of the major deciding factors will be cost - because I would LOVE to have them near me and see them every week/several times a week but if it rinses their money too quickly and we end up moving to a state home within a couple of years, then that could be bad in the long term. London care homes seem to quote 2000-3000 pounds per head per week, whereas the local care home quotes 1000-1200 pounds per head per week.
Is there a list of individual care home costs somewhere? individually contacting them all is like pulling teeth as they want to send you the brochure but hide the price list. If people are happy to share their location and costs that would be really useful as this is starting to feel like monopoly money.