cost of private homecare

misc2013

Looking at cost of home care for elderly mother with Alzheimers. If hourly rate is anything to go by, it's prohibitive but then nursing homes are 1300/1400/ week also. My mother is dead set against NH so looking at the alternatives. She has savings but nothing massive.

One company quoted E250/ night sleepover. :-0

Has anyone used as main care and been able to get a weekly fee as opposed to this hourly rate which again would be impossible?

Peregrinus

This might be of interest:

https://www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/2023/01/10/a-live-in-companion-your-elderly-relative-can-count-on/

Also this:

https://www.elderhomeshare.ie/

You need to think carefully about what your mother needs. Does she mainly require a companion, so that she is not living alone? Does she require supervision 24/7? (That obviously requires more than one person.) Does she require not just companionship, but support services - someone who will cook, clean, assist with administration of medication, take her to appointments, manage her diary, etc? Obviously, the higher your mother's needs, the more this costs. You might also think about whether you need a flexible arrangement, that can start at a lower level and build up — as your mother's condition progresses, her care needs will rise.

None of the options are cheap, and the Fair Deal scheme is not available to pay for care at home.

If your mother has been assessed by the HSE and awarded some hours of home support, you could talk to the agency providing that support about extra support being given on the basis that your mother (or you) pay for the extra hours, but I don't think that will be a viable way of providing 24/7 support.

misc2013

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121855758#Comment_121855758

She is currently in hospital awaiting discharge and needs 24/7 due to falls risk. We've had a level of outside care in the home but it was limited and propped up by family which is not sustainable due to distance. At this juncture we believe she needs NH. Unfortunately she will not agree and the hospital have advised that she needs to agree to NH before she can be discharged to one so we are exploring increased homecare but don't have any faith in it being by any means affordable. Once we have the facts and figures we go back into negotiations with mam and hospital around discharge. I was wondering if anyone had negotiated a weekly fee rather than per hour/ per night before I talk to the agencies. The live in people generally only work a 35 hour week. That's still alot of unfilled hours. We don't believe any of this is realistic but have been advised to go away and do our homework.

Gael23

if she needs 24 hour care then she needs to be in a nursing home.

With the fair deal it won’t cost anything like 1400 a week depending on her financial circumstances