After writing up a previous post, I note that in about the past 6 years, someone from the Memory Clinic has come to see my dad three times in that time - all of them at my request and it led me to think if my dad is getting the appropriate service from his Memory Clinic. The first of those appointments was made three years after the last time he was at the Clinic for his diagnosis.
On the NHS website it says "Memory services provide assessment and diagnosis of dementia and provide ongoing support and information to people with memory problems and their carers. Memory services are specialist services for people of any age who may be experiencing memory difficulties, which includes early onset dementia."
Before reading that, I would have thought at the very least that the Clinic would want to keep a record of his decline (or any progress) and so may come or ask to see him every few months or ask his GP to make this check or check on how he is with the medications he's on. But no nothing.
I know from my Memory Clinic they can be quite busy and fully appreciate that but, even though he's self-paying, I still I wouldn't have expected him to be left to get on with it.
Does your Memory Clinic do/offer more for you?
On the NHS website it says "Memory services provide assessment and diagnosis of dementia and provide ongoing support and information to people with memory problems and their carers. Memory services are specialist services for people of any age who may be experiencing memory difficulties, which includes early onset dementia."
Before reading that, I would have thought at the very least that the Clinic would want to keep a record of his decline (or any progress) and so may come or ask to see him every few months or ask his GP to make this check or check on how he is with the medications he's on. But no nothing.
I know from my Memory Clinic they can be quite busy and fully appreciate that but, even though he's self-paying, I still I wouldn't have expected him to be left to get on with it.
Does your Memory Clinic do/offer more for you?