Hi all,
This is my first post on Talking Point. I've found the posts here by other members very useful and interesting and the Alzheimer's site as a whole has some fantastic articles. There are some very bright and knowledgeable people here!
My mother is 75 years old and has dementia. It was I July that a letter came through after an assessment stating that she had "Moderate Dementia in Alzheimer's disease with late onset".
My father has been struggling to care for her and has his own problems with poor eyesight, poor hearing and heart problems. He had been trying to get help from social services for some respite and arrangements were made for mum to go into a home for 1 week so that dad could get some respite.
4 days prior to mum going in, my dad suffered a heart/angina attack. He's been in hospital since then and is awaiting decision on whether an operation needs to be made. We had to bring mum's care home arrangements forward (thankfully they were able to take her earlier) but we've had to extend her stay and might need to extend it even further.
Depending on what happens with dad (who has been in hospital over a week now already), he'll be in no fit state to continue looking after mum at home. I've been keeping the social services updated on what's happening but I'm just worried about how much money is going into mum's care and how it's eating away at their savings. I understand there is a £23k threshold and they'll be reassessed when the figure goes below, but dad will not be in any state to have to worry about the arrangements. My wife and aunt and I are managing to keep on top of things so far.
I started my own blog about this year, as my wife and I became parents to a beautiful baby boy, so we've been struggling ourselves with that.
Does anyone have experience with the £23k threshold being met and being reassessed? Would the council then take over and agree to pay towards continued care? We are thinking longer term now seeing as dad needs time to recover, unless there is some home care they could receive. Night times are particularly difficult, I wonder if a "night shift" carer is such a thing?
Thanks and best regards,
Stephen
This is my first post on Talking Point. I've found the posts here by other members very useful and interesting and the Alzheimer's site as a whole has some fantastic articles. There are some very bright and knowledgeable people here!
My mother is 75 years old and has dementia. It was I July that a letter came through after an assessment stating that she had "Moderate Dementia in Alzheimer's disease with late onset".
My father has been struggling to care for her and has his own problems with poor eyesight, poor hearing and heart problems. He had been trying to get help from social services for some respite and arrangements were made for mum to go into a home for 1 week so that dad could get some respite.
4 days prior to mum going in, my dad suffered a heart/angina attack. He's been in hospital since then and is awaiting decision on whether an operation needs to be made. We had to bring mum's care home arrangements forward (thankfully they were able to take her earlier) but we've had to extend her stay and might need to extend it even further.
Depending on what happens with dad (who has been in hospital over a week now already), he'll be in no fit state to continue looking after mum at home. I've been keeping the social services updated on what's happening but I'm just worried about how much money is going into mum's care and how it's eating away at their savings. I understand there is a £23k threshold and they'll be reassessed when the figure goes below, but dad will not be in any state to have to worry about the arrangements. My wife and aunt and I are managing to keep on top of things so far.
I started my own blog about this year, as my wife and I became parents to a beautiful baby boy, so we've been struggling ourselves with that.
Does anyone have experience with the £23k threshold being met and being reassessed? Would the council then take over and agree to pay towards continued care? We are thinking longer term now seeing as dad needs time to recover, unless there is some home care they could receive. Night times are particularly difficult, I wonder if a "night shift" carer is such a thing?
Thanks and best regards,
Stephen