I thought I’d start a new thread, in the hope that someone out in forum land has experience of safeguarding issues at a care home.
up until a couple of months ago Dads home was exceptional...... now it’s at times poor!
It depends on who is on duty & who you speak to; so having concerns I asked the lovely advice of the forum , following which I emailed my concerns to myDads social worker, who informed me to contact the access team, who contacted safeguarding & an office based person assessed the issues spoke to the care home & said - yep all in hand with the care home....... just check the replies from the manager & let me know if there are any issues you aren’t happy with!!!!
What a joke
- no record or need Of a profiling bed
- no record of any falls this year! Despite Dad having large dressings & bruising & photos being taken & scarring now evident on his head!
- no record of SALT assessment since in home
- no record of OT assessment since in home
- no record of CMHT since in home
- no record of any dementia team assessments
- no record of mobility issues
- no record of swallowing issues
oh the list goes on.....
so I’m now trying to get help for my Dad from a reluctant home manager, a community nurse who won’t meet us without safeguarding being present,( but managed to advise a GP to take Dad off his pain relief patches after her assessment today! No matter what his medical history says!!!)
my poor Dad, it’s not acceptable -
no matter how many times we tell the GP surgery that if medical staff are going out to see Dad we would like to be present... no one lets us know!
Decisions are made that are not in his best interests or welfare by people who should know better!
so tomorrow finally we have wangled a 10 minute appointment with a GP at another practice which is part of the one my Dad is registered at!
Oh it’s only taken 6 call backs, several visits to the surgery & a major temper tantrum ( on my part !) to get a face to face appointment
Amazing how the Gp can get to the home but can’t meet us!!
especially as Dads dementia is so advanced he has issues with speech & expressing himself!
if I treated my dogs like this I’d be up in court! Yet if you have dementia it seems that this is acceptable behaviour
I thought mums GP was useless this one of Dads whom I’ve never met, ( I have tried believe me! ) beggars belief!
The pathetic excuses & when asked do you think this is in his (Dads) best interests deferred to a community nurse who has been named in ignoring safeguarding issues concerning my father....... she of the no need for pain patches , back onto co codamol that he can’t swallow & chokes on!
arrrrgggghhhh!
please let this nightmare end!
I love my Dad but can’t bear to see him in pain & distress.
I have no social worker to contact as one hasnt now been allocated to this case.... so until this is assessed I’m battling on pestering the old social service contacts so I have a paper trail to show my concerns!
This can’t be happening.... again
up until a couple of months ago Dads home was exceptional...... now it’s at times poor!
It depends on who is on duty & who you speak to; so having concerns I asked the lovely advice of the forum , following which I emailed my concerns to myDads social worker, who informed me to contact the access team, who contacted safeguarding & an office based person assessed the issues spoke to the care home & said - yep all in hand with the care home....... just check the replies from the manager & let me know if there are any issues you aren’t happy with!!!!
What a joke
- no record or need Of a profiling bed
- no record of any falls this year! Despite Dad having large dressings & bruising & photos being taken & scarring now evident on his head!
- no record of SALT assessment since in home
- no record of OT assessment since in home
- no record of CMHT since in home
- no record of any dementia team assessments
- no record of mobility issues
- no record of swallowing issues
oh the list goes on.....
so I’m now trying to get help for my Dad from a reluctant home manager, a community nurse who won’t meet us without safeguarding being present,( but managed to advise a GP to take Dad off his pain relief patches after her assessment today! No matter what his medical history says!!!)
my poor Dad, it’s not acceptable -
no matter how many times we tell the GP surgery that if medical staff are going out to see Dad we would like to be present... no one lets us know!
Decisions are made that are not in his best interests or welfare by people who should know better!
so tomorrow finally we have wangled a 10 minute appointment with a GP at another practice which is part of the one my Dad is registered at!
Oh it’s only taken 6 call backs, several visits to the surgery & a major temper tantrum ( on my part !) to get a face to face appointment
Amazing how the Gp can get to the home but can’t meet us!!
especially as Dads dementia is so advanced he has issues with speech & expressing himself!
if I treated my dogs like this I’d be up in court! Yet if you have dementia it seems that this is acceptable behaviour
I thought mums GP was useless this one of Dads whom I’ve never met, ( I have tried believe me! ) beggars belief!
The pathetic excuses & when asked do you think this is in his (Dads) best interests deferred to a community nurse who has been named in ignoring safeguarding issues concerning my father....... she of the no need for pain patches , back onto co codamol that he can’t swallow & chokes on!
arrrrgggghhhh!
please let this nightmare end!
I love my Dad but can’t bear to see him in pain & distress.
I have no social worker to contact as one hasnt now been allocated to this case.... so until this is assessed I’m battling on pestering the old social service contacts so I have a paper trail to show my concerns!
This can’t be happening.... again