Live from Sheffield: Affording Care

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Money Box Live broadcasts from Grange Crescent Residential Care Home in Sheffield for a special programme on the cost of care.

Unlike NHS services, social care is not free at the point of use. It costs an average of around £60,000 per year to live in a residential care home and considerably more if you need nursing care.

Last week the Department of Health and Social Care announced a new review into care costs, but the independent commission tasked with the job will not publish it's final report until 2028.

We'll be speaking to residents and family members about how they're paying their care bills and hearing from the care home manager about how it all works.

Joining Felicity Hannah is Claire Rintoul, CEO of the charity Sheffcare which operates Grange Crescent Residential Care Home as well as eight others in the city, Professor Vic Rayner, Chair of the Care Providers Alliance which represents independent and voluntary adult social care providers in England and from the Society of later life advisors, Independent Financial Advisor Jonathan Rowley.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Sarah Rogers Production Coordinators: Emma Smith and Molly Pipe Editor: Jess Quayle

(This programme was first broadcast 3pm on Wednesday the 8th of January, 2025)

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0:42.5	Hello, today we're live in Sheffield at the Grange Crescent residential care home for a special Moneybox Live on the cost of care.
0:45.5	It is a freezing cold day in the city, lots of ice on the ground.
0:49.5	But it's nice and warm here inside the home's cafe,
0:53.0	where I'm joined by residents, staff and experts to discuss the cost of care in older age.
0:58.0	It's a purpose-built residential home. It's out in the suburbs.
1:02.0	It's home to 54 people, including 16 in its specialist dementia wing.
1:07.0	And it's also run by a charity, so unlike many homes, it's not being run to make a profit.
1:12.0	Now, of course, the moment you realise you or a loved one needs the support of residential care can be hugely stressful.
1:18.9	And we get a lot of emails from listeners about the financial stresses too.
1:24.0	When the letter came through for the price increase for this year, I just thought, wow,
1:29.7	how am I going to cope?
1:32.0	Well, we'll be asking how people can cope in today's program.
1:35.8	The cost of care, of course, is a national conversation.
1:38.7	Unlike NHS services, social care is not free at the point of use.
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