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What age are the residents?
Our younger residents are here through accidents or illness and can require long-term nursing or rehabilitation or short term respite care. Our youngest permanent resident is 47 years old and the youngest resident for respite/short term care is 24.Our eldest resident is 97.
How many residents are at QAHH? And what is the ratio of carers to residents?
QAHH has places for sixty residents at one time. The ratio a staff to carers is 1 resident to 1.5+ care staff. This does increase depending on the need of the current residents as some of our residents receive one to one care on a full time basis.
Costs
As a charity we subsidise our nursing care fees in order to make our high quality services accessible to as many ex-Service personnel as possible. Care fees start at £695 per week (low-dependency nursing) to stay at QAHH. The rest of the cost is met through voluntary income generated by legacies, donations and fundraising activities.
The financial situation of each resident varies and our fee system works on a case-by-case basis. For more information it is advisable to speak to Katie Holmes (Resident Admissions Secretary).
Why is the cost of this care not met by Social Services, NHS or other Government body?
These services may contribute to the cost of providing our residents with both long term and respite care. However, the true cost of providing the full range of support that our residents need is more than we can claim.
What is Acquired Brain Injury?
An acquired brain injury (ABI) is an injury to the brain that has happened after birth, following a period of normal development. It could be the result of an accident, illness such as an infection, Cerebral episode, tumor or poisoning. ABI can affect a person physically, but can also change the personality and behaviour of an individual.
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