Hi everyone. Last week a carer employed by a home care agency, administered the wrong medication to my father: a cocktail of 9 tablets from a blister pack of my mother's. Over the next few days dad suffered a fall, a slip out of the bed, increased breathlessness, and eventually a hospital admission. Dad was tested for suspected Coronavirus and spent 2 nights on an isolation ward. A phone call from a consultant was to ask my opinion on resuscitation should dad's heart fail. I was frantic!
I have initiated a safeguarding referral, as has the hospital. Naturally I have cancelled all calls from the care agency. Dad is home now. He has been affected by the trauma: mobility, incontinence, increased confusion.
I, and the family, are now caring for him around the clock. The challenge is to have a reassessment of dad's care needs, identify a new care agency and re-establish a home care package and to get an OT referral for equipment (bed guard, transfer mat, riser chair, incontinence supplies etc).
All services have been affected with the lockdown. Looks like I will be sleeping next to him on a garden recliner chair for some time!
I guess I'm posting just to vent and let off steam. Thanks for reading.
I have initiated a safeguarding referral, as has the hospital. Naturally I have cancelled all calls from the care agency. Dad is home now. He has been affected by the trauma: mobility, incontinence, increased confusion.
I, and the family, are now caring for him around the clock. The challenge is to have a reassessment of dad's care needs, identify a new care agency and re-establish a home care package and to get an OT referral for equipment (bed guard, transfer mat, riser chair, incontinence supplies etc).
All services have been affected with the lockdown. Looks like I will be sleeping next to him on a garden recliner chair for some time!
I guess I'm posting just to vent and let off steam. Thanks for reading.