Finding A Nursing Home Nightmare

SteveMD

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Jul 21, 2022
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There are far too many Care/Nursing Homes claiming that they have a Dementia Unit when MOST only want folk with low level dementia.

My Mother has Alzheimer's and was recently diagnosed with Front Lobe Dementia as well, causing increased anxiety and fear of noisy environments. The Dementia Unit of the Care home she has been in since the start of March served notice on her because she is too labour intensive to deal with.

The CCG have since granted her full funding and produced a new care plan requiring her toi be in a Nursing Home rather than Care Home.

Most of these homes appear to want the simple life and only want early stage Dementia sufferers. They seem to be using "Dementia Unit" as a USP to gain interest and then decline you when you provide a copy of the Care Plan. In a quieter environment Mum is fine, she refuses to dine in her own room but equally does not like the noise when dining with the other 23 residents in the homes Dementia UNIT.

The NHS CHC department say they are struggling to find her somewhere and the current home is placing great pressure on us to find her somewhere else and to an extent they have given up doing any activities with her, further fueling her anxiety. We email other homes and they either reject or dont respond. it is becoming very difficult.

It has become pretty clear that most homes only want early stage dementia patients in South Wiltshire.
 

jaymor

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Jul 14, 2006
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Hi @SteveMD and welcome to the forum.

Have you looked at EMI nursing homes? They tend to have more staff and take residents that need more care and to end of life. My husband was in such a nursing home and he was really well looked after.

There were 26 rooms split over three independent floors so just nine men on his floor. Such homes are out there but difficult to find.

hopefully others will be along to offer some advice, please make use of all the knowledge and understanding from our members.
 

Jaded'n'faded

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Jan 23, 2019
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If the NHS CHC department are struggling to find somewhere, I'm not sure how the care home expect you to do any better!

The sort of placement you're looking for will be hard to find - you may have to look further afield. The bottom line though, is that if a place can't be found at the price CHC want to pay, they will have to go with somewhere more expensive.