My husband was diagnosed with vascular dementia three years ago. He has not been too bad over that time there have been niggardly things going on like he cannot remember how to deal with the TV and little things like that
Three weeks ago he went to bed OK but when he woke in the morning his speech was not understandable I thought he had had a stroke. I called an ambulance which came fairly quickly three hours after call, at 9.30pm after he spent five hours in the ambulance, only being taken into hospital for scan, they called saying they could not find anything wrong it was just his dementia so we had to go and get him when we got him out of the car he fell over, my son had to get my wheelchair so as to get into house.
On the following day he slept all day and woke up just as I was going to bed and started talking none stop and it was all rubbish, he all so wanted to get out of bed which he could not do as he kept on falling over and I had to get people to come and get him up, in the morning I called for another ambulance because he was halluncinating he could not even take a drink or eat that ambulance took 24 hours to arrive and taken to another hospital.
He has been there for three weeks now he cannot walk he cannot feed himself and he sleeps all the time, they do not think he will come home he will have to go into a care home.
Sorry this is so long but the question I would like help on is what money we are going to lose if he goes into care, we live in a council house, he has his state pension and a private pension and attendance allowance. I get a married womens pension and pension credit. What I wonder about is what I am likely to lose. Can I contact DWP on behalf of husband as he cannot talk on a phone as he is loosing his hearing and his sight
Three weeks ago he went to bed OK but when he woke in the morning his speech was not understandable I thought he had had a stroke. I called an ambulance which came fairly quickly three hours after call, at 9.30pm after he spent five hours in the ambulance, only being taken into hospital for scan, they called saying they could not find anything wrong it was just his dementia so we had to go and get him when we got him out of the car he fell over, my son had to get my wheelchair so as to get into house.
On the following day he slept all day and woke up just as I was going to bed and started talking none stop and it was all rubbish, he all so wanted to get out of bed which he could not do as he kept on falling over and I had to get people to come and get him up, in the morning I called for another ambulance because he was halluncinating he could not even take a drink or eat that ambulance took 24 hours to arrive and taken to another hospital.
He has been there for three weeks now he cannot walk he cannot feed himself and he sleeps all the time, they do not think he will come home he will have to go into a care home.
Sorry this is so long but the question I would like help on is what money we are going to lose if he goes into care, we live in a council house, he has his state pension and a private pension and attendance allowance. I get a married womens pension and pension credit. What I wonder about is what I am likely to lose. Can I contact DWP on behalf of husband as he cannot talk on a phone as he is loosing his hearing and his sight