My mother aged 88 was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2017. She has a few other problems including pulmonary fibrosis and she has an indwelling catheter. She is now living downstairs at home on her own and has carers 4 times a day. She has had a couple of recent stays in hospital, one a UTI and the other a chest infection. She has seemed very confused after her latest stay but that has improved a bit. She had a little fall in the garden and cut her hand this week but all dealt with by her carers and District nurse.
One of my brothers thinks she should move to a care home now. The rest of us are not so sure. The care company we use are just fantastic and she knows them all.
We are not medically qualified to assess Mum's needs but there seems no way 8n her locality of getting an assessment of her needs now and the best way to meet them.. She had a rather perfunctory one conducted by Social Services over the telephone in early 2018 after we requested it.
How have others made the assessment of when a care home is needed?
None of us live near her to make things more complex.
One of my brothers thinks she should move to a care home now. The rest of us are not so sure. The care company we use are just fantastic and she knows them all.
We are not medically qualified to assess Mum's needs but there seems no way 8n her locality of getting an assessment of her needs now and the best way to meet them.. She had a rather perfunctory one conducted by Social Services over the telephone in early 2018 after we requested it.
How have others made the assessment of when a care home is needed?
None of us live near her to make things more complex.