My sister and me are very worried about my mother’s health since she will maybe be forced into a home while her health is stable and followed at home better than in a home.
My mother is in the later stages of Alzheimer’s, my sister and I are her attorneys and hold a registered EPA done before Oct 2007.
At the present moment her health is stable and managed at her home with the support of her GP and a live in carer.
A DNR order is in place
Her home has been equipped with special showers, electrical hoists, special chairs, a commode, hospital bed and everything she may need.
Care is provided by agency carers 24/7
It is our wish she stays at home, as it was my mother's wish too.
These are her actual needs all provided at her home:
She takes over 45 minutes to be fed three times a day. She needs to drink a cup of liquid which she takes thickened to double cream consistency, every hour. She uses a machine pump nebulizer up to 8 times a day with cortisone and salbutamol, these procedures takes about 20 minutes each time. Her skin is very fragile and it breaks up easily so she is bathed and creamed every day and after each nappy change.
Can Social Services force her to go to a Home as to be able to manage their budget?
Can they overrule our wish using just a financial argument?
Thanking you for your opinions and experiences
My mother is in the later stages of Alzheimer’s, my sister and I are her attorneys and hold a registered EPA done before Oct 2007.
At the present moment her health is stable and managed at her home with the support of her GP and a live in carer.
A DNR order is in place
Her home has been equipped with special showers, electrical hoists, special chairs, a commode, hospital bed and everything she may need.
Care is provided by agency carers 24/7
It is our wish she stays at home, as it was my mother's wish too.
These are her actual needs all provided at her home:
She takes over 45 minutes to be fed three times a day. She needs to drink a cup of liquid which she takes thickened to double cream consistency, every hour. She uses a machine pump nebulizer up to 8 times a day with cortisone and salbutamol, these procedures takes about 20 minutes each time. Her skin is very fragile and it breaks up easily so she is bathed and creamed every day and after each nappy change.
Can Social Services force her to go to a Home as to be able to manage their budget?
Can they overrule our wish using just a financial argument?
Thanking you for your opinions and experiences