Just read the article. It is very sloppy writing, doesn't discuss the issues appropriately and is very confusing -are they talking about people with learning dissabilities, older people or pwd???
It would be left to the poor put upon relatives as usual. I think it is a very bad idea. What about the rights of those left to pick up the pieces?https://www.theguardian.com/society...-right-to-stay-own-home-law-winterbourne-view
I find some of this very unsettling - "A person would be assumed to want to live in the community unless he or she indicated otherwise"
Which is something a PWD is very unlikely to do. In the meantime, who would be caring for the person in their own home? Do we really need the move to a care home made even harder?
It would be left to the poor put upon relatives as usual. I think it is a very bad idea. What about the rights of those left to pick up the pieces?
Not me. My rights first and that is how it is and will continue to be. I'm selfish enough to want to keep my health and sanity.Ah we don’t have any rights just a duty of care to those we love
Not me. My rights first and that is how it is and will continue to be. I'm selfish enough to want to keep my health and sanity.
I originally made the comment about it being more economical but that was meant as being cheaper for the government to keep people at home than having to fund care homes, build them, equip them and staff them for all those people who are not self funded. I am cynical enough to think that governments of all persuasions in many western countries are hellbent on cost cutting and are preparing the public for what life is going to be like as the population ages. When it comes to things like defence, it is a bottomless pit and you never hear about how expensive it is to build and maintain all the branches of a defence force or how they budget for it. Hospitals, schools, aged care? Laughable!It's going to get harder for families as well as our surgery and I am sure many others now refuse by all accounts to take the responsibility to do mental capacity assessments. With mum it needed the hospital social worker to do it and now we have a COP application going through I have been told by the solicitor mum's GP won't touch a MCA with a barge pole so we have to look at finding someone else, despite her having one!!! So who is suddenly going to take responsibility for MCA 's if GP's start refusing to do them?!
Back to the original article. Everyone I am sure would much rather than stay in their own home, that goes without saying but it is riddled with as many issues and questions as moving a loved one into care. As a family we were concerned about the horror stories about care homes but with care in the home how do you also trust the one or two carers caring for a loved one?
Someone said that it would be cheaper economically but certainly not cheaper personally if you were looking for 24 hour care. From what I can see 24 hour home care would work out far more expensive than a care home and you would also have to take into account bills, spending and utilities on top of that home care most of which you "save" if you move into a care home. Then what does the government do when it comes to self funders as obviously a great many people have to sell their houses to fund their own care, but if they continue to live in them?!?!?!
The whole system is a mess and it can sadly only get worse because so many more people are living longer. The only way to partially solve the problem is to find a cure as obviously if your memory and thought processes were not affected you could live at home longer anyway.