Sorry to bombard the forum with questions.....being long distance and no practical use, the only thing I can think to do is to try to investigate all possible avenues!
FiL is, at present, in hospital after having his hip mended, pneumonia treated, and some unpleasant after-effects from morphine treated. He has become weaker since he was in hospital in Oct....started using a zimmer in the house then, and also has multiple arterial ulcers. The physio who visited him at home said he would become bedbound very quickly if he didn't make the effort to move (in chair all day/night sleeping and watching tv) So far in hospital he is refusing to mobilise, so we are worried about (amongst other things) whether when he is discharged he will have the mobility level he had beforehand, or whether he will indeed be virtually bedbound.
If he is bedbound, I don't see how he can stay in his home without a much bigger care input (currently carer twice a day for personal care). He is self-funding at the moment, we have been unable to get LPA for him, and we do do not know if he has dementia or not (sometimes think he has, then think we're mistaken ) If he gets super stubborn (as is quite likely) he could refuse to go to a CH and also dispense with carers to his house. What happens then? If we can't do anything without LPA can SS step in and organise him as a vulnerable person? Or is it a case of him having capacity and therefore exercising his human right to make risky decisions?
I've read so much about Mental Capacity.....I understand everything I read, but then I don't understand the sheer 'hit-and-miss-ness' of it!
If anyone has any ideas on how this could go, I'd be really grateful to hear them.....still hoping to get LPA but may not be soon, and hoping that hospital staff may venture an opinion about his mental state, so that at least we know we need to try to get him to his GP.
FiL is, at present, in hospital after having his hip mended, pneumonia treated, and some unpleasant after-effects from morphine treated. He has become weaker since he was in hospital in Oct....started using a zimmer in the house then, and also has multiple arterial ulcers. The physio who visited him at home said he would become bedbound very quickly if he didn't make the effort to move (in chair all day/night sleeping and watching tv) So far in hospital he is refusing to mobilise, so we are worried about (amongst other things) whether when he is discharged he will have the mobility level he had beforehand, or whether he will indeed be virtually bedbound.
If he is bedbound, I don't see how he can stay in his home without a much bigger care input (currently carer twice a day for personal care). He is self-funding at the moment, we have been unable to get LPA for him, and we do do not know if he has dementia or not (sometimes think he has, then think we're mistaken ) If he gets super stubborn (as is quite likely) he could refuse to go to a CH and also dispense with carers to his house. What happens then? If we can't do anything without LPA can SS step in and organise him as a vulnerable person? Or is it a case of him having capacity and therefore exercising his human right to make risky decisions?
I've read so much about Mental Capacity.....I understand everything I read, but then I don't understand the sheer 'hit-and-miss-ness' of it!
If anyone has any ideas on how this could go, I'd be really grateful to hear them.....still hoping to get LPA but may not be soon, and hoping that hospital staff may venture an opinion about his mental state, so that at least we know we need to try to get him to his GP.