Nursing/Care Homes for the elderley?
Posted by: Paul Hutchings on 24 September 2005
Bit tricky to know where to begin really so I'll try and keep it brief and provide info if/when it's needed.
My grandad is 84 and currently lives by himself in a house that my mum owns. He has dementia and has recently started having falls and whilst you could probably not tell anything was amis looking or speaking with him, if you know the full history if the situation and had deal with it every day you'd know the sort of thing I'm talking about.
My mum and I are starting to think that he needs more care than ourselves and the morning/evening carer visits can provide, truth be told it's been headed this way for some time, and ultimately when you get beyond carer visits this leads towards thinking maybe a home of some sort.
Does anyone know where you begin with this sort of thing?
Because of his dementia Social Services are involved. I belive this is because when he was diagnosed with demntia the whole mental health/care for the elderly thing falls under Social Services. We were supposed to have a meeting with them last Wednesday which was cancelled due to him being in bed because of a fall he had on the Monday.
I'm after as broad and general advice as I can get from anyone who has had experience with this sort of thing. I don't have a new date for this meeting yet but it would be nice to have some idea of the process and options available.
As a final point, if anyone is reading this and it comes across as "grandad's got old, I want to shove him in a home, how do I do it" believe me, it isn't. I'm not an author and it's very hard to compress years of gradual decline and the whole "what do we do now" question into a few very short paragraphs.
regards,
Paul
My grandad is 84 and currently lives by himself in a house that my mum owns. He has dementia and has recently started having falls and whilst you could probably not tell anything was amis looking or speaking with him, if you know the full history if the situation and had deal with it every day you'd know the sort of thing I'm talking about.
My mum and I are starting to think that he needs more care than ourselves and the morning/evening carer visits can provide, truth be told it's been headed this way for some time, and ultimately when you get beyond carer visits this leads towards thinking maybe a home of some sort.
Does anyone know where you begin with this sort of thing?
Because of his dementia Social Services are involved. I belive this is because when he was diagnosed with demntia the whole mental health/care for the elderly thing falls under Social Services. We were supposed to have a meeting with them last Wednesday which was cancelled due to him being in bed because of a fall he had on the Monday.
I'm after as broad and general advice as I can get from anyone who has had experience with this sort of thing. I don't have a new date for this meeting yet but it would be nice to have some idea of the process and options available.
As a final point, if anyone is reading this and it comes across as "grandad's got old, I want to shove him in a home, how do I do it" believe me, it isn't. I'm not an author and it's very hard to compress years of gradual decline and the whole "what do we do now" question into a few very short paragraphs.
regards,
Paul