to think that 'funding' review for my mum is a waste of time, money and resources/

I hope not, petra. When my husband was dying, they filled in a form with over 50 pages to decide whether the NHS or social services should pay. He died before the assessment results came back.

My 93 year old mother in law seems to have these assessments every three months or so. A lot of time and a lot of paper. Think how many trees could be saved if common sense could be used instead.

I see, thank you for that information - I shall use it on Tuesday!

Did you look into Continuing Care funding kitty? - very often it is not mentioned. It has nothing to do with SSD and their rules - it is payment for continuing nursing care that is required due to a medical condition and comes directly from the NHS - and is not means-tested.

Even when Continuing Care has been mentioned it is often with the wrong information and the tests applied inaccurately - I speak from experience!

The rationale behind reviewing her present funding will be twofold - to see if she should be paying more; or to see if the SSD can offload the responsibility onto NHS via Continuing Care.

I often wonder what they would do if they run out of the boxes they have to tick. I know, invent some more.

I think Mishap is right kitty, it may be to check whether she is now entitled to NHS Continuing Health Care which would mean that she wouldn't have to make any contribution at all. It could be a very worthwhile exercise.

kitty sadly its just the admin machine that cannot stop itself - one of the reasons why Social Services can never catch up with its own budget- doing those things which ought not to be done and not doing those things which ought to be done. I hope Mum is as comfortable as they can make her- must be an endless worry for you.

Our problem is other way round MIL- knocking on for 102 now(and this has been going on for 25 years now0 will not engage with services provided to support her which she desperately needs and SS will not reassess her deterioration or the fact that the care agency is taking the money and not doing anything. DH is worn out with it all.

Mum is getting all of the funding to which she is entitled, Mishap. But of course that will reduce as she gets better!

It's the futility of checking on the health of a 91 year old with those conditions that I object to as I'm sure the department involved has better ways to use its resources!

With dementia and COPD she should be getting full funding from the NHS under the Continuing Care provision.

My point exactly!! And, at 91, with dementia and copd

kitty That's right, as loopylou says. Some conditions that get paid for do improve although why they can't simply check the person still has whatever-it-is which won't improve, I don't know! It's like regularly checking people with permanent disabilities to make sure the disability hasn't suddenly gone away.

I don't see why, in mum's circumstances, it is necessary as she can only get worse!

I suspect it's a monitoring requirement, and unfortunately a necessary exercise.