Have gone through two DST meetings to try to get ongoing healthcare funding.
After the last one the social worker for my wife communicated that we would get the funding If I agreed to accept medication.
The care home were keen to use sedation when my wife had a UTI and this eventually was initiated via the dementia psychiatrist without notification to me.
This was then stopped after I wrote to the GP and social worker and Demetia Psychiatrist by the GP who accepted my preference to get a baseline off Metrazapine for depression and Lorazapine for anxiety.
I and family and friends feel she has improved cognitively though she is more upset as she is more present of her plight (she is in a care home) which I feel is a natural reaction to a bad situation.
They have now postponed the forthcoming meeting and invited back in the psychiatrist who had discharged my wife after I refused to restart the medication.
They have now called a 'best interests' meeting and feel they are going to 'over rule' my representations or the fact that she has improved as they say it will be in her best interest as they did when she initially put on these when she was in hospital.
After the last one the social worker for my wife communicated that we would get the funding If I agreed to accept medication.
The care home were keen to use sedation when my wife had a UTI and this eventually was initiated via the dementia psychiatrist without notification to me.
This was then stopped after I wrote to the GP and social worker and Demetia Psychiatrist by the GP who accepted my preference to get a baseline off Metrazapine for depression and Lorazapine for anxiety.
I and family and friends feel she has improved cognitively though she is more upset as she is more present of her plight (she is in a care home) which I feel is a natural reaction to a bad situation.
They have now postponed the forthcoming meeting and invited back in the psychiatrist who had discharged my wife after I refused to restart the medication.
They have now called a 'best interests' meeting and feel they are going to 'over rule' my representations or the fact that she has improved as they say it will be in her best interest as they did when she initially put on these when she was in hospital.