Hi all, my dad was diagnosed with v.dem 18 months ago by his psychiatrist, he is currently in hospital due to a chest infection, cavitated phnuemonia. He has been in hospital for 7 weeks to date and has had his first ever delirium, he lashed out and had to be restrained and injected with an antipsychotic drug. While he has been in hospital the consultants did a chest scan and a ct scan, his head scan came back clear, absolutely nothing showing any sign of v.dem which is all so strange. We, the family never thought he had it anyway but we are not specialists. The problem is the consultant has said dads chest is clear and he can be discharged but no way to an EMI, a nursing home would be suffice until at least we know the infection has completely gone and the dilirium won’t start up again. The SW now says she spoke to dad the day before the best interest meeting and according to her he doesn’t have capacity, the doctors at the hospital and the family are not buying that, honest he should be going home, he is better now than he has been for a very long time.
In April dad fappointed me as his LPA for welfare in the event of him ever losing capacity unfortunately it wasn’t back befor the best decisions meeting S services have now taken control, what I need to know is that should I recieved the LPA soon would that mean I could decide where dad lives? S sevices have said dad needs to go into a nursing home but we want him home, they did want him in an EMI but no one agreed to that, the hospital have put his dilirium down to his physical health and nothing to do with his mental health.
In April dad fappointed me as his LPA for welfare in the event of him ever losing capacity unfortunately it wasn’t back befor the best decisions meeting S services have now taken control, what I need to know is that should I recieved the LPA soon would that mean I could decide where dad lives? S sevices have said dad needs to go into a nursing home but we want him home, they did want him in an EMI but no one agreed to that, the hospital have put his dilirium down to his physical health and nothing to do with his mental health.