I'm a little worried that I'm not getting much support from the GP surgery for my mother.
She has broken both hips in the last 8 months after falling with UTI (& Urosepsis...is that UTI?). I can sometimes see that mum is acting strange....angry, unsteady on her feet etc...but the GP's don't seem too interested. So that makes me ignore the symptoms and so she falls. It's like a slow motion car crash.
I learned recently that the GP surgery has 'proactice care team' and mum is on their list....but I have no contact with them. I was told today that being on the list means that mum is discussed 'regularly', and I guess they assume that I'm on top of things, so I presume they say 'No action required'.
What sort of support do people get from their GP. Do they have a 'proactive' team and what do they actually do ('proactive' is the wrong name for them IMO....I suspect that it is a requirement of NHS to have a 'proactive' list of vulnerable patients....but resources being finite I guess it's just a tick-box exercise).
Mum is advanced stage dementia. She eats & drinks OK (with support) but swallowing may be an issue in the future. Risk of falling is an inevitable part of dementia but I cannot see the GP is trying to reduce that risk....I feel I'm on my own sometimes.
When I started on this journey as a carer I went on a course where they described all the healthcare professionals who will support you (District nurses, GP, OT, etc etc). If I knew then what I know now I would have laughed out loud and told them they were talking rubbish. Austerity probably hasn't helped.
She has broken both hips in the last 8 months after falling with UTI (& Urosepsis...is that UTI?). I can sometimes see that mum is acting strange....angry, unsteady on her feet etc...but the GP's don't seem too interested. So that makes me ignore the symptoms and so she falls. It's like a slow motion car crash.
I learned recently that the GP surgery has 'proactice care team' and mum is on their list....but I have no contact with them. I was told today that being on the list means that mum is discussed 'regularly', and I guess they assume that I'm on top of things, so I presume they say 'No action required'.
What sort of support do people get from their GP. Do they have a 'proactive' team and what do they actually do ('proactive' is the wrong name for them IMO....I suspect that it is a requirement of NHS to have a 'proactive' list of vulnerable patients....but resources being finite I guess it's just a tick-box exercise).
Mum is advanced stage dementia. She eats & drinks OK (with support) but swallowing may be an issue in the future. Risk of falling is an inevitable part of dementia but I cannot see the GP is trying to reduce that risk....I feel I'm on my own sometimes.
When I started on this journey as a carer I went on a course where they described all the healthcare professionals who will support you (District nurses, GP, OT, etc etc). If I knew then what I know now I would have laughed out loud and told them they were talking rubbish. Austerity probably hasn't helped.