Dear All,
In April of this year my father was sectioned under the mental health act and admitted to a local specialist hospital ward for Dementia. He is now under a section 117 which provides for his continuing medical care costs, however, the hospital is putting pressure for a home to be found for him - Dads condition is extreme, including aggression to other patients and staff, incontinence but refusal to where pads or even clothes and little to no sleep at all. Medication is not helpful and he has extreme reactions to any form of sedation. We are strongly of the opinion that only the specialist hospital ward where he is currently has the resources to cope with him, however, as you are aware it is not the NHS policy for long term care to be supplied by themselves.
Since his admittance in April, Dads condition has deteriorated still further and in their own words is the most extreme case of Dementia they have come across.
A nursing home was arranged via his care worker and social services, however he lasted less than 24 hours before the manager admitted that they were unable to cope with his condition and called for an ambulance and re admittance to the hospital.
We have now been suggested another nursing home in Taunton, which is over an hour away from my parents home (Honiton) and will be very difficult for my mother (70 plus) to visit on public transport.
Any help or advice on nursing homes in the Honiton, Exeter area would be greatly appreciated (or any legal way that we could enforce the hospital to continue his care there) Clutching at straws.............
In April of this year my father was sectioned under the mental health act and admitted to a local specialist hospital ward for Dementia. He is now under a section 117 which provides for his continuing medical care costs, however, the hospital is putting pressure for a home to be found for him - Dads condition is extreme, including aggression to other patients and staff, incontinence but refusal to where pads or even clothes and little to no sleep at all. Medication is not helpful and he has extreme reactions to any form of sedation. We are strongly of the opinion that only the specialist hospital ward where he is currently has the resources to cope with him, however, as you are aware it is not the NHS policy for long term care to be supplied by themselves.
Since his admittance in April, Dads condition has deteriorated still further and in their own words is the most extreme case of Dementia they have come across.
A nursing home was arranged via his care worker and social services, however he lasted less than 24 hours before the manager admitted that they were unable to cope with his condition and called for an ambulance and re admittance to the hospital.
We have now been suggested another nursing home in Taunton, which is over an hour away from my parents home (Honiton) and will be very difficult for my mother (70 plus) to visit on public transport.
Any help or advice on nursing homes in the Honiton, Exeter area would be greatly appreciated (or any legal way that we could enforce the hospital to continue his care there) Clutching at straws.............