GeoffF100 wrote:BigB wrote:There are homes that do only private care, homes that do a mixture, and homes that have local authorities connections so they take lots of state funded residents.
How do we know what their funding model is, and which is cheaper for self-funders? Are there any statistics?
Well in our recent case, we had access to some information from several state sources: hospital, gps, local authority adult social care team.
Ringing the LA ASC team should be helpful. They'll tell you which homes they have deals with in the authority, which could mean you can use the home personally funded and then continue to use it state funded when the money runs out. They'll have a contracted rate with homes that will/may be less than the advertised price. That rate won't be freely available to private customers but I think some homes may be open to negotiation depending on their occupancy and your circs.
We also discovered 18 months ago a home in the LA which is like a halfway-house home the hospitals can use when trying to unblock beds for patients leaving hospital but not able to go home and care for themselves. It had 1 floor of halfway house, 1 floor of private residents, 1 floor of state funders. Social care is one of the big issues for waiting lists and hospitals. We encountered so many people still in beds in hospital because there was no agreed safe care plan for them to leave.
Speaking to LA can be helpful in terms of doing some due diligence too - if a home is state funded/sponsored, you may believe the home will operate to certain standards and scrutiny better than some others. Price and lovely rooms won't necessarily guarantee best care, and of course everyone gets to define 'best' for themselves.
There are also different types of care, and they are not necessarily all available in all the places you might look: residential, dementia, secured dementia (sealed wings to prevent walkaways), nursing, probably others too.
