RE: Oh dear30 Mar 2022 21:52
Pigeon .
I am being sincere.
Regarding your father. I know a great deal about dementia and who pays for the care .
if you fathers care can be managed by community care in a nursing home then he / social services will have to fund this care . He will have a financial assessment to find out who pays what etc.
However, what a lot of carers who have someone diagnosed with a dementia do not realise is that sometimes the PWD ( person with dementia) has elements of their care that fall under NHS nursing care ( they can be living at home, or in a standard nursing home in the community) .
I would ask his GP, nursing home manager / social worker / to arrange what is called a NHS Continuing Healthcare screening to find out if the Health Authority pay full cost of his care. They have a tool that had nine paradigms and he needs to meet critical in just one, or substantial in several ...these paradigms are not just nursing care practices
If you apply and it get refused you have lost nothing. If he gets through initial screening then they will go to town and do the full assessment - something I often do with people who have lost capacity at the A&E, who can't be discharged home, and need 24/7 care - but the decision who pays is always grey. The decision to grant it could be based on behaviours ( symptoms of dementia), skin care, breathing, mobility, eating and drinking, communication etc etc .
Maybe the place he is now living is not meeting his needs = shows up on weight loss, amount of falls, bruises, fractures someone has had over a set period of time...and it goes on there are many indicators.
The bottom line is my mother had advanced mixed detail, and i won it on her behaviours , my father currently 97 is in a nursing home and i have won it baswd on the previous nursing homes ( good home) but could not manage his falls etc , so he needs a specialists nursing home that provide limited d depravation of liberty orders to protect himself from himself.
The bottom line is if you win he will be given the best nursing home to meet his needs, or can be managed at home but with free NHS care up to however much it costs to meet his needs - so not limitless but they pay what it costs.
Recommended you ask for this to be applied.
Or you can get a specialist solicitor who specialised in this area to fight your case on your behalf.
The savings your father will make in fees will easily y pay for the solicitor, IF your father is what they call a self funder ( paying form his own pocket_). Do not be put off by how complicated it looks.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/healthcare/