BBC news - makes me think of us 😢

[sdmhred]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-68780023


what a heartbreaking story 😭

I do hope there is an investigation which will no doubt reveal lack of support, lack of GP help, lack of referral to mh services and general failure 😭😭

And what has happened to the poor chap? I know they were thinking about secure care homes? In he was under 65 it would be a secure psychiatric hospital

awful!

 

[Kated1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-68780023


what a heartbreaking story 😭

I do hope there is an investigation which will no doubt reveal lack of support, lack of GP help, lack of referral to mh services and general failure 😭😭

And what has happened to the poor chap? I know they were thinking about secure care homes? In he was under 65 it would be a secure psychiatric hospital

awful!

That is terrifying!
I am thinking of copying this link and sending it to the social worker who insists my stepmother stay in her home with live in carers even though she has already hit, kicked and spat at them. This makes me realise that the potential is that at some point she may completely lose it and I just have to hope she does not have a knife in her hand when she does. I have already had to create an “escape room” with a lock on the inside so the carer can lock herself in when my stepmothers anger gets out of control.

 

[backin]

The other story this week was the chap that disappeared in Spain while on holiday. I wonder if they found him?

 

[DaftDad]

I read this and thought about my Dad. We've already got certain carers who refuse to go to his house because he can get very agitated and verbally abusive and has pushed carers and hit one with his walking stick. Social services were disinterested whatsoever in our reports of these episodes to them and blamed the care agency for not giving staff robust enough training in being assertive.

 

[Louise7]

The other story this week was the chap that disappeared in Spain while on holiday. I wonder if they found him?

Hello @backin if you mean the man from Edinburgh who went missing in Barcelona, he has been found safe at a bus stop:

British man with Alzheimer's found after going missing on holiday in Barcelona

Their trip is the couple's 'last holiday' together after David was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2023.

metro.co.uk

 

[backin]

Hello @backin if you mean the man from Edinburgh who went missing in Barcelona, he has been found safe at a bus stop:

British man with Alzheimer's found after going missing on holiday in Barcelona

Their trip is the couple's 'last holiday' together after David was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2023.

metro.co.uk

That's a relief