Hi everyone. (I hope this post is in the right place)
My mother-in-law - who has been living alone with carers coming in - has recently deteriorated rapidly but had been managing to hide from everyone just how bad things were. A bout of gout has left her needing urgent respite care and we arranged a short stay in a small charity-run private hospital near our home (she lives a 2hr drive away from us/can’t stay with us as we have steep stairs and six very bouncy dogs). Unfortunately having assured them she wasn’t a wanderer it turns out she’s become one and after she spent her first night walking in and out of every room in the place, totally confused as to why she was there, we were asked to find her alternative accommodation as the hospital is not a secure unit. It being Sunday so far we’ve failed to do that, so we have a lot of calls to make in the morning. My question concerns my husband and his brother’s lack of an LPA - they only have an EPA and despite my raising concerns had done nothing to alter that before it was too late in terms of my mother-in-laws capacity. Without an LPA can they make the decision to place her in care - something she is not happy about - or do we need to involve social services (she is self-funding) or go through the lengthy process of appointing a deputy?
My mother-in-law - who has been living alone with carers coming in - has recently deteriorated rapidly but had been managing to hide from everyone just how bad things were. A bout of gout has left her needing urgent respite care and we arranged a short stay in a small charity-run private hospital near our home (she lives a 2hr drive away from us/can’t stay with us as we have steep stairs and six very bouncy dogs). Unfortunately having assured them she wasn’t a wanderer it turns out she’s become one and after she spent her first night walking in and out of every room in the place, totally confused as to why she was there, we were asked to find her alternative accommodation as the hospital is not a secure unit. It being Sunday so far we’ve failed to do that, so we have a lot of calls to make in the morning. My question concerns my husband and his brother’s lack of an LPA - they only have an EPA and despite my raising concerns had done nothing to alter that before it was too late in terms of my mother-in-laws capacity. Without an LPA can they make the decision to place her in care - something she is not happy about - or do we need to involve social services (she is self-funding) or go through the lengthy process of appointing a deputy?
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