Thanks for that toot I always watch but I missed that one

Well I must say there is horses for courses!

Some are taking you to the cleaners some are not you need to shop around.

Some are run by churches and are not looking for the last $$$.

I had to put my late mother into a Care home when she turned 90, she paid her money 9  (which depends on the individual how much they pay, some were more ofluent than others, some had to pay nothing, some had to pay $600,000 some pay $80,000 some had to pay $300,00)

Yes it depends on how much you get from the sale of your home.   Mum sold her home that she had lived in for thirty years with my late father.

When she passed away 10 months later I as the only child received nearly everything back.

When the ambulance came to take her to hospital once they said to me this is like living in a five start hospital.   I was allowed to bring my two standard poodles into the complext and into her room.

Yes it was on a high level;  Mums level was for her that was able to wash and dress herself and walk about.

I use to visit her four days a week and bring her shopping with me her meals were catered for and were nice, but not the same as cooking yourself but what does one expect cooking for several hundred people.

One level was for the disabled and one level was in lock down for those that had dementia.

So it pays to look around.

I had to laugh at one stage I was with her looking around for a nice place I think it was run by the Church of England.   The lady was telling us that the car down there,  [she pointed to one] is owned by  a gentleman that came into our Home when he was 60 years of age he has just turned 90! So he had got his money's work.

As I say it is horses for courses.

By the way the programme that is being shown is a repeat and is fairly old unless it has been updated within the last few weeks.  This situation with us oldies needs to be looked upon on a annual basis.

Mum had to pay most of her Pension each week for her upkeep also.

Thanks for that toot I watched it and am not a BIT surprised --what utter low lives they are,  ripping off people --  I hope that THEY get their just deserts in the end!

Celia I have known a few places run by churches and other so-called religious people/places that have been pulled over the coals in the news -- and why they are allowed to continue I do not know.

Hi Plan B.

I can only write what I have experienced first hand, I don't take a bit of notice from those that have heard along the grapevine so to speak.   The situation can be changed so much when people chat to eachother and change the true facts.

But you only get what you pay for;  that is an old old saying.

You cannot expect in life free bees all around the planet, nobody works for free in life, no body there has to be a payment of something along the route.

Hi Plan B.

I would not say they were 'fancy' by any means. 

It is what my family were used to, and we are no fancy, just plain living in a home we call a home.

I have seen some terrible aged places I went with my mother at the time and neither of us would want to be put there!

Yes I have seen very fancy places and she would not want to be put their either, so it was the centre of the road so to speak that we selected together, mum had her opinions as did I so it was a happy outcome.

She had like others, a very large room that she took some of her own furnishings to make it more homely, there was a Library and things like that near a park.   I think it was something we as a family would aspire to in our old age when we needed to live with help, which is not long now!   LOL