Query on Fair Deal for elderly parent

Masala

Hope someone can help on this query. Looks like we will need to put our elderly father in a nursing home because of his needs and dementia.

My mum will stay in the family home and we will take turns calling and sleeping overnight. She won't budge from home so we will have to work with her on this.

Their only income is the weekly pension x 2. Mt dad transferred the family house to my brother as part of the transfer if the family farm over 10 years ago.

So... My query ... Will my brother have a financial liability of 7.5% x 3 years should my dad pass away. We worried that if we push for the Nursing Home ... It come back to haunt my brother who is making nothing at the farm side of things. What would the 7.5% be based on... Full farm value or house only. To make things worse... The brother has disposed of bits of the farm over the past 10 yrs... And so is left with approx 30% of what he inherited.

Hope this makes sense!!!

Athdara

We've have had dealing with Fair Deal recently as my mother in law required full time care. As the house was signed over more than 5 years ago then it is not considered part of your parents assets & will not be used in the assessment of means.
My mother in law became very ill very fast so we had to move quickly and thankfully the Fair Deal Office agreed to Transitional Funding while awaiting approval which took approx 6 weeks. Any Nursing homes charges while awaiting approval are not reimbursed, financially this transitional funding was a lifeline for us as we simply didn't have the money to pay in the interim & were going to talk to bank about a loan.

The first step is a Care Needs Assessment whereby a visit has to take place either at home or in a hospital setting & your father will be assessed as to whether he actually needs full time care- mobility, mental capacity, back up at home. They will speak with the medical personnel currently dealing with your father. In our case it was the hospital. Once it has been agreed that he needs full time care then the financial means are assessed. In our case it was very straight forward so there was no delay. We had sent in proof of pension & bank statement with initial application form.
Hope this helps.

wokingvoter

Your brother will have no liability regarding his house