i only know of NSW and you really need a ACAT assessment even to get into respite as there are so many needing it.
If your husband goes into a "public" NH he will go onto a single pension and pay a percetage of that pension in fees.
You stay living in your home and you too will be on a single pension.
OR you can choose for him to go into a "private" NH and he will be on a single pension but the pension will not cover the weekly fees and no matter what level of care you will have to pay at least $200,000 and you depending on the NH you will get about 9-10 weeks to come up with the lump sum or you can do a payment plan (which will cost you more in the long term)
As your husband has already been diagnosed there might not be much you can do unless you already have enduring power of attorney and you are also legally in control of all his medical treatment.
We had to get a solicitor do everything for us but we could not transfer the deeds of the house until the person died and it was.then sorted out with their will. We needed a solicitor because we were really stupid in not accepting the situation and then when we did accept it we couldn't sort out anything ourselves.
The main power we wanted was control of the persons medical treatment including knowledge and approval of any alterations or additions to the persons medication, even though we had that control some things were still done without our approval.
Private NHs do offer more that just better light fittings and furnishings, the one big plus is supposed to be a higher staff to patient ratio but I would question that and also re-question it every month when you get the bill should you choose private.
Probably the most confronting part of it all was when going through everything with the Matron (Manager??) we were asked which Funeral Directors we would like then to use when the time came. I sat there stunned because it was like a slap in the face.
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