Lying here wide awake and upset as just been thinking about my grandma in the home. Same position as everyone else as above and it’s just awful, we don’t want her to feel like we have forgotten her, and we are very worried because she relies on us to flag other health problems she may have, just during a normal chat she’ll mention something is hurting so we can try to leap into action and get things sorted. Just do not know what to do! Her eyesight is failing so we can’t even do the standing away from a door or window because she can’t see or hear us. Last we heard from the home is that they are actually confining all residents to their rooms which seems a little too far and also a bit cruel?? Have any other homes adopted this approach ?
The home does not have any internet, can you believe it, so no option of connecting online. I would be happy to pay for the home to get internet installed and even say let’s families club together to pay the bills in the short term but they are very old fashioned and concerned about data and security. Only other option I can think of is taking out a new phone contract with 4G for her, but as other people have said she cannot work the technology and staff must be so overwhelmed and busy right now it’s not fair to expect them to be sitting playing with technology, even though I would argue this does have an impact on quality of life
Does anyone have any ‘offline’ connection ideas ? Just cannot see the wood from the trees with an option.
Thanks and take care all x