I have just had a meeting with my husband’s social worker, the chess team and a supervisor from his home. The chess team have been called several times because of issues with my husband since the lockdown, these are all new issues and the chess team said that it’s because of not seeing me. The social worker also agreed with this. The supervisor was very black and white with no leeway which even though the meeting was on Teams was very apparent that we were all getting frustrated with her. Anyway I read out some areas of the guidelines and the social worker has gone away to see her legal department as she said there were some cases being brought in the COP. The chess team have asked for several areas of the report to be looked at by the management in order to make visits available and each resident to to be individually assessed.
The latest issue is that my husband is refusing his medication, this is essential because it’s for his heart. The home had phoned the doctor and he said they couldn’t force him. I phoned the doctor and he said to quote “ he’ll have a heart attack” just what I wanted to hear, anyway the home has been told to go back to the doctor and ask to find a way of getting his medication restarted.
I feel like the home don’t want to be bothered with setting up visits. The supervisor said that if I visited in his room it would have be deep cleaned afterwards ( it can be accessed without going into the main body of the home). The chess team said that the room hadn’t been deep cleaned after their visit and contractors are in the home daily along with chiropodist and other health care people so I can’t imagine this ‘deep cleaning’ be possible after all these people visit.
The upshot is the social worker and chess team have gone away to get more evidence to support my right to visit inside and the home have also been tasked to come up with solution to make this happen. There’s to be another meeting the week after next to hopefully plan visiting.
The latest issue is that my husband is refusing his medication, this is essential because it’s for his heart. The home had phoned the doctor and he said they couldn’t force him. I phoned the doctor and he said to quote “ he’ll have a heart attack” just what I wanted to hear, anyway the home has been told to go back to the doctor and ask to find a way of getting his medication restarted.
I feel like the home don’t want to be bothered with setting up visits. The supervisor said that if I visited in his room it would have be deep cleaned afterwards ( it can be accessed without going into the main body of the home). The chess team said that the room hadn’t been deep cleaned after their visit and contractors are in the home daily along with chiropodist and other health care people so I can’t imagine this ‘deep cleaning’ be possible after all these people visit.
The upshot is the social worker and chess team have gone away to get more evidence to support my right to visit inside and the home have also been tasked to come up with solution to make this happen. There’s to be another meeting the week after next to hopefully plan visiting.