I've just spent an hour on the phone to the social worker trying to argue the point to point of letting Mum have 22hr care in her own home rather than sending her to an emi residential home which she is so very much against.
I don't know whether I'm being too optomistic thinking it would work out if she was given the opportunity to try.
Social workers and all the mental health medics just seem so keen on the residential route. She 's 94 physically fit for her age and was taken into the local mental health hospital under a section 2 now a 3 because over a period of about 3 weeks she started wandering out on her own and did'nt know where she was.
Up to then she has lived on her own with family support.
To my mind she has become more confused in this five weeks she has been in this hospital mixing with all these people at different stages of confusion, some really bad.
She has'nt been given any dementia medication except a sedative to quieten her down at various times,and never had a brain scan . She was pushed over by a patient on the first day she was there and severly cut her leg and has been on anti biotics since as it became so swollen and infected. What made me so angry the staff made no attempt to inform the family of this accident. over the following week I had to keep on asking for treatment for her leg like changing the dressing and water tablets for the swelling . Mental health workers seem unable to treat the whole person. My overall impression of the care of mental health patients is very poor the staff seem below the standard of a medical hospital.
Patients just are wandering about looking for the door to get out . There is no structure to their day and very little organised activities.
Very worrying for everyone
Joanie
I don't know whether I'm being too optomistic thinking it would work out if she was given the opportunity to try.
Social workers and all the mental health medics just seem so keen on the residential route. She 's 94 physically fit for her age and was taken into the local mental health hospital under a section 2 now a 3 because over a period of about 3 weeks she started wandering out on her own and did'nt know where she was.
Up to then she has lived on her own with family support.
To my mind she has become more confused in this five weeks she has been in this hospital mixing with all these people at different stages of confusion, some really bad.
She has'nt been given any dementia medication except a sedative to quieten her down at various times,and never had a brain scan . She was pushed over by a patient on the first day she was there and severly cut her leg and has been on anti biotics since as it became so swollen and infected. What made me so angry the staff made no attempt to inform the family of this accident. over the following week I had to keep on asking for treatment for her leg like changing the dressing and water tablets for the swelling . Mental health workers seem unable to treat the whole person. My overall impression of the care of mental health patients is very poor the staff seem below the standard of a medical hospital.
Patients just are wandering about looking for the door to get out . There is no structure to their day and very little organised activities.
Very worrying for everyone
Joanie