Sixteen Thousand Pound A Month For Care Costs ?

[Axe 836]

Why not employ your own carers rather than pay sixteen thousand pounds a month to a care company?

[peak4 284]

For those who haven't a clue what the opening post is about, The Sun has covered it reasonably well

LOVE AT ALL COST Kate Garraway’s crippling financial battle over Derek’s care which ate up GMB salary… & the celeb pals who’ve stepped up

 

 

[hackey lad 3,991]

54 minutes ago, peak4 said:

For those who haven't a clue what the opening post is about, The Sun has covered it reasonably well

LOVE AT ALL COST Kate Garraway’s crippling financial battle over Derek’s care which ate up GMB salary… & the celeb pals who’ve stepped up

 

 

More questions than answers . 

[ECCOnoob 1,051]

50 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

More questions than answers . 

Absolutely.  Something seems very fishy here.   Another woe is me documentary and accompanying interviews.   Another cash injection on the back of her late husband's illness. 

 

Based on the report she is earning £544k a year from her tv work, which, even after the substantial tax, equates to more than someone's annual salary every month.   They live in a £4m property.     Even if half of her monthly income was on this 'extortionate' care - it still left nearly £9k a month to pay everything else.    Cut your cloth accordingly - everyone else would have to.    Maybe sell the £4m house and buy somewhere else.    Im sure £2m could still buy something nice leaving the other £2m to pay for these supposed debts.  

 

Seems to me that there is some excuse making and playing for sympathy here.    Banging on about care costs and struggling when its obvious that the hardship has REALLY came from of her husband's failed company.   Interesting also that she claims in the article that she had no legal authority on the failing business yet a quick glance at companies house shows her named as a shareholder and the one who signed the Liquidation paperwork over two years ago.  

 

 Pity the journalist failed to mention things like that.   Although that wouldn't have resulted in a nice gooey life interest sympathy seeking piece.  

[Anna B 1,417]

I was told by a doctor that care for a relative in a specialist neurological unit would cost £16,000 per month. 

 

I asked how this amount could possibly be justified and was told they were over a barrel and didn't have any other choice but to pay it. It was because they required one to on,e 24 hour care. 

 

I was expecting some amazing care for that sort of money, but it was appalling. The one to one didn't happen, and neither did the 'specialist care'. I can't go into further details because it is subject to a legal complaint.

 

It is a racket, pure and simple. It needs a public enquiry. The NHS has lost control of these outsourced pivatised 'services' and are being exploited by ruthless and  greedy care companies. It's a scandal. The extortionate amounts of tax payers money being fed into the NHS is going straight into the pockets of these companies, which is why we never see the money making any discernible difference.

They care nothing for the wellbeing of their 'clients.'  They only care about a fast profit.   

,,,Tory privatisation at its finest...

[hackey lad 3,991]

All that just to get that last sentence in . 

[hackey lad 3,991]

12 hours ago, Anna B said:

I was told by a doctor that care for a relative in a specialist neurological unit would cost £16,000 per month. 

 

I asked how this amount could possibly be justified and was told they were over a barrel and didn't have any other choice but to pay it. It was because they required one to on,e 24 hour care. 

 

I was expecting some amazing care for that sort of money, but it was appalling. The one to one didn't happen, and neither did the 'specialist care'. I can't go into further details because it is subject to a legal complaint.

 

It is a racket, pure and simple. It needs a public enquiry. The NHS has lost control of these outsourced pivatised 'services' and are being exploited by ruthless and  greedy care companies. It's a scandal. The extortionate amounts of tax payers money being fed into the NHS is going straight into the pockets of these companies, which is why we never see the money making any discernible difference.

They care nothing for the wellbeing of their 'clients.'  They only care about a fast profit.   

,,,Tory privatisation at its finest...

Are you Kate Garraway ? because your stories are very similar. 

[PRESLEY 1,231]

1 hour ago, hackey lad said:

All that just to get that last sentence in . 

She is reight tho. 

[Padders 2,880]

30 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

She is reight tho. 

Unlike you Mr. P. whose never been reight.

[PRESLEY 1,231]

15 minutes ago, Padders said:

Unlike you Mr. P. whose never been reight.

Go and feed ya Parrot. 

[Anna B 1,417]

22 hours ago, Axe said:

Why not employ your own carers rather than pay sixteen thousand pounds a month to a care company?

I recently had a flyer from age UK, saying to expect carers to charge an hourly rate (or part of an hour) of between £23 and £30 an hour. Do the maths for yourself. 

7 x 24 = 168 hours x £27 (average) = £4,536 per week or £18,144 per month for 1 to 1 care 

For someone who needs lifting or other specialist care (they often charge more) 2 carers are mandatory due to health and safety.  The carers, incidently,Even  are usually on minimum wage, the extra expense goes to the agency that supplies them.

 

Even minimum wage of £11 an hour will cost £7,392 per month. plus various insurances. 1 to 1    24 hour care is considered necessary for several conditions, including during the night when choking, falling out of bed etc is quite common. People have no idea unless they have been through it. 

 

My relative had early onset Huntingdons disease, deteriorating rapidly from the age of 18. Towards the end of this totally debilitatiing illness he had to be fed via a PEG (tube,) as he couldn't swallow properly and was in constant danger of choking, was doubly incontinent, had dementia, couldn't walk or talk, lived strapped in a wheelchair or in a bed, in other words had very obvious needs. This state persisted for 5 years in a care home, yet he had to reapply for funding every year which involved a huge amount of form filling (38 page booklets,) plus gathering evidence from doctors and other professionals, plus numerous calls to DWP whose job seems to be to get people off benefits by hook or by crook. Funding was withdrawn twice as a matter of course which resulted in months of delays and debts and more frantic form filling. Even then, the family had to stump up part of the costs. He died in his sleep at the age of 43. If that wasn't bad enough, following his death, the DWP insisted we still owed them more money, (we didn't) so in the midst of mourning and dealing with the business of the end of a life, that was piled on top, causing no end of heartache and anxiety.

 

Like I said, people have no idea unless they have been through it...

 

 

[Axe 836]

56 minutes ago, Anna B said:

I recently had a flyer from age UK, saying to expect carers to charge an hourly rate (or part of an hour) of between £23 and £30 an hour. Do the maths for yourself. 

7 x 24 = 168 hours x £27 (average) = £4,536 per week or £18,144 per month for 1 to 1 care 

For someone who needs lifting or other specialist care (they often charge more) 2 carers are mandatory due to health and safety.  The carers, incidently,Even  are usually on minimum wage, the extra expense goes to the agency that supplies them.

 

Even minimum wage of £11 an hour will cost £7,392 per month. plus various insurances. 1 to 1    24 hour care is considered necessary for several conditions, including during the night when choking, falling out of bed etc is quite common. People have no idea unless they have been through it. 

 

My relative had early onset Huntingdons disease, deteriorating rapidly from the age of 18. Towards the end of this totally debilitatiing illness he had to be fed via a PEG (tube,) as he couldn't swallow properly and was in constant danger of choking, was doubly incontinent, had dementia, couldn't walk or talk, lived strapped in a wheelchair or in a bed, in other words had very obvious needs. This state persisted for 5 years in a care home, yet he had to reapply for funding every year which involved a huge amount of form filling (38 page booklets,) plus gathering evidence from doctors and other professionals, plus numerous calls to DWP whose job seems to be to get people off benefits by hook or by crook. Funding was withdrawn twice as a matter of course which resulted in months of delays and debts and more frantic form filling. Even then, the family had to stump up part of the costs. He died in his sleep at the age of 43. If that wasn't bad enough, following his death, the DWP insisted we still owed them more money, (we didn't) so in the midst of mourning and dealing with the business of the end of a life, that was piled on top, causing no end of heartache and anxiety.

 

Like I said, people have no idea unless they have been through it...

 

 

As I sated it makes sense to employ the carers yourself and cut out the middle man.