Hi
We have carers going in 4 evenings a week to give mum an evening meal (the 3 days a week she goes out). However, they very rarely give her a meal. They ask if she wants anything and she either says she is not hungry or that she as already eaten. When I go over there, I find biscuits, cakes, chocolate bars in all sorts of places! No wonder she is not losing weight!
We have spoken to the Dom Care Company several times, as well as Social Services and have now written to them (that was 2 weeks ago and no one has replied yet ) but they are still not cooking her a meal. We have asked them to say they are there to cook a meal rather than ask mum if she wants anything and to give her limited choices about what to have but this seems beyond them - sometimes they don't even give her a drink!
Mum is a long way from needing to go into a home but if the carers can't get something as simple as this right, how will we be able to trust them in the future????
Advice please....
Plumx
We have carers going in 4 evenings a week to give mum an evening meal (the 3 days a week she goes out). However, they very rarely give her a meal. They ask if she wants anything and she either says she is not hungry or that she as already eaten. When I go over there, I find biscuits, cakes, chocolate bars in all sorts of places! No wonder she is not losing weight!
We have spoken to the Dom Care Company several times, as well as Social Services and have now written to them (that was 2 weeks ago and no one has replied yet ) but they are still not cooking her a meal. We have asked them to say they are there to cook a meal rather than ask mum if she wants anything and to give her limited choices about what to have but this seems beyond them - sometimes they don't even give her a drink!
Mum is a long way from needing to go into a home but if the carers can't get something as simple as this right, how will we be able to trust them in the future????
Advice please....
Plumx