Care
home fees rise to £30,000 a year
The average cost of staying in a care home has shot up to £30,000 a year, more
than double pensioners' incomes. The annual cost increased by 5.6% or £1,536 to
£30,926 over the past year. This is ten times the £156 rise in pensioners'
incomes in the same period; the average pensioner's income of £14,456 grew by
1.1%. As a result elderly and vulnerable people who need residential care face
a shortfall of £290 a week. London has the highest and the fastest growing care
home costs, according to the research by Prestige Nursing and Care. Average
annual care costs in the capital are £38,896, up 19% in the past year. Other
areas with big rises include the east of England, where fees have gone up 12.2%
to £37,908; the southwest, with a 5.8% rise to £35,360; and the East Midlands,
where fees have risen 10.6% to £28,860
The rise in costs of adult social care and the increase in demand is putting a huge pressure on local authority budgets, these pressures along with the continued reduction -- on mainly Northern Councils budgets will drive Councils to go bankrupt ---some sooner rather than later.
Its time the Government recognised this growing problem and acted.
Why cant we look after our older residents properly, when we can find money to prop up the bankers and spivs in the city of London who caused the current problems?
Its time to end the failed Tory economic policy of austerity now !!!!
