Mum died 8 years ago and dad lives alone.
We bath him 2/3 times a week and take his clothes away while he is in the bath and lay out clean ones, other wise I am not sure he would change them. We also take care of shopping, bills, cleaning the house etc.
My brother goes every morning before work to give him his tablets (the doctor says he is on the highest dose of the strongest ones, so there is nothing more he can do.) I visit every morning before he goes out. My niece goes every evening.
His neighbours are very good and call one of us if they see anything unusual. Things like if dad is late back or when he goes out at midnight because he looks at the clock, and it says 12 0'clock, he thinks it's lunchtime and he hasn't been out for the paper, or when he puts himself in bed in the afternoon because it's 2 0'clock.
We have mentioned a day centre to him but his big concern was that he would miss his walk.
It just feels like we are on our own with this and I don't know if it is usual for the doctor to just give repeat prescriptions for so long without wanting to see him or send him to be assessed, or whether I am just expecting to much of the good old NHS.
We bath him 2/3 times a week and take his clothes away while he is in the bath and lay out clean ones, other wise I am not sure he would change them. We also take care of shopping, bills, cleaning the house etc.
My brother goes every morning before work to give him his tablets (the doctor says he is on the highest dose of the strongest ones, so there is nothing more he can do.) I visit every morning before he goes out. My niece goes every evening.
His neighbours are very good and call one of us if they see anything unusual. Things like if dad is late back or when he goes out at midnight because he looks at the clock, and it says 12 0'clock, he thinks it's lunchtime and he hasn't been out for the paper, or when he puts himself in bed in the afternoon because it's 2 0'clock.
We have mentioned a day centre to him but his big concern was that he would miss his walk.
It just feels like we are on our own with this and I don't know if it is usual for the doctor to just give repeat prescriptions for so long without wanting to see him or send him to be assessed, or whether I am just expecting to much of the good old NHS.