Mum is in a care home now, £460 a week. Not easy to organise, but we have an IFA and a plan of our own to compare and reckon 12 years is manageable if not more. Mum doesn't see why she needs to be there. She isn't ill, so why is she there? Why can't she go home? True, she is not wandering at night any more, but does that get cured? Can anyone tell me?
Now she is neurotic about money. She always had her pension paid into an account and drew the whole lot out every week and stashed it away to pay her bills in cash. She lately had no idea how to pay her household insurance which needed a cheque. I had to organise that for her. She had no idea how to do it, no idea that she had a current account (with cheque book) or could transfer money from one of her savings accounts to do so.
After she was diagnosed with AZ I found she had paid some bills twice, and some not at all.
I have POA now registered.
But she is insisting that I must "draw out" her pension every week and give it to her in the home. Her only expenditure is the hairdresser once a fortnight, £5, I have given her £25, but she is panicking that might not be enough, she wants her "pension" and wants it now!
Of course her pension is going towards her care home fees, I have earmarked £10 a week for her as personal spending, but she isn't happy about it. She seems to think she needs the whole of her pension every week (£130) and I can't convince her otherwise.
Anybody any advice please?
Margaret
Now she is neurotic about money. She always had her pension paid into an account and drew the whole lot out every week and stashed it away to pay her bills in cash. She lately had no idea how to pay her household insurance which needed a cheque. I had to organise that for her. She had no idea how to do it, no idea that she had a current account (with cheque book) or could transfer money from one of her savings accounts to do so.
After she was diagnosed with AZ I found she had paid some bills twice, and some not at all.
I have POA now registered.
But she is insisting that I must "draw out" her pension every week and give it to her in the home. Her only expenditure is the hairdresser once a fortnight, £5, I have given her £25, but she is panicking that might not be enough, she wants her "pension" and wants it now!
Of course her pension is going towards her care home fees, I have earmarked £10 a week for her as personal spending, but she isn't happy about it. She seems to think she needs the whole of her pension every week (£130) and I can't convince her otherwise.
Anybody any advice please?
Margaret