Hi I’m new to the forum ,
my father now age 83 and totally alone was admitted to hospital in Dec after falls possibly due to drink. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2018. He was then sent to a care home which are supposedly trained in Alzheimer’s. I dont live near and haven’t seen the home.
He keeps asking to go back to hospital so they can put him to sleep and has done thus since dec 2920.
he is on the highest antidepressant and they’ve changed his meds to memantine. He is now being verbally and physically aggressive and has attacked both care home and nurse staff at the hospital. And deliberately urinated in the carers car on the way home from hospital. The CPN has said he needs one to one care but the home is understaffed.
after a week of hell and upping his sedatives the care him have just called to say they can’t cope and are looking for an EMI home for him.
would he come anywhere close to fit the criteria for CHC as he is self funding ?
oh also after a brain scan last week they said he’d had a stroke that I new nothing about , would this mean he likely has vascular dimentia as well as Alzheimer’s , would they not have been able to diagnose this from his scan or do they not bother to pinpoint once the Alzheime diagnosis was made in 2018
my father now age 83 and totally alone was admitted to hospital in Dec after falls possibly due to drink. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2018. He was then sent to a care home which are supposedly trained in Alzheimer’s. I dont live near and haven’t seen the home.
He keeps asking to go back to hospital so they can put him to sleep and has done thus since dec 2920.
he is on the highest antidepressant and they’ve changed his meds to memantine. He is now being verbally and physically aggressive and has attacked both care home and nurse staff at the hospital. And deliberately urinated in the carers car on the way home from hospital. The CPN has said he needs one to one care but the home is understaffed.
after a week of hell and upping his sedatives the care him have just called to say they can’t cope and are looking for an EMI home for him.
would he come anywhere close to fit the criteria for CHC as he is self funding ?
oh also after a brain scan last week they said he’d had a stroke that I new nothing about , would this mean he likely has vascular dimentia as well as Alzheimer’s , would they not have been able to diagnose this from his scan or do they not bother to pinpoint once the Alzheime diagnosis was made in 2018