Hi again everyone, me again
following a fall / accident ( we don't really know) on saturday, mum was visited by a GP at home yesterday and sent to hospital where a multiple fracture was diagnosed and treated. Ok, so I'm 400 miles away, I arranged the GP visit, as she would have done nothing to address the situation
mum has significant cognitive impairment although if you just met her in, for example A and E, you wouldn't necessarily know this; she has come home from hospital in a cast, and has poor mobility. She lives alone in a house with stairs and will undoubtedly find navigation difficult, indeed dangerous especially since she has her leg in plaster now, in addition to her already rickety state.
guys do I now telephone her local social services or the doctor to ask about a care plan / safeguarding strategy whilst she recovers from the injury? her memory issues are not formally diagnosed yet and this physical injury has now exacibated a situation which I already felt was tenuous. I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself i don't know what to do to help her - she's so vulnerable. I have no doubt she will have said she's ok and has loads of support in the village where she lives.... This is not the case, but she will seem very plausible to health care professionals and I imagine they've just let her go home. I can't even see how she'll manage her stairs to get to bed / bathroon, let alone undress Etc......... Oh such worry
Sorry for all these questions xxxxx
following a fall / accident ( we don't really know) on saturday, mum was visited by a GP at home yesterday and sent to hospital where a multiple fracture was diagnosed and treated. Ok, so I'm 400 miles away, I arranged the GP visit, as she would have done nothing to address the situation
mum has significant cognitive impairment although if you just met her in, for example A and E, you wouldn't necessarily know this; she has come home from hospital in a cast, and has poor mobility. She lives alone in a house with stairs and will undoubtedly find navigation difficult, indeed dangerous especially since she has her leg in plaster now, in addition to her already rickety state.
guys do I now telephone her local social services or the doctor to ask about a care plan / safeguarding strategy whilst she recovers from the injury? her memory issues are not formally diagnosed yet and this physical injury has now exacibated a situation which I already felt was tenuous. I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself i don't know what to do to help her - she's so vulnerable. I have no doubt she will have said she's ok and has loads of support in the village where she lives.... This is not the case, but she will seem very plausible to health care professionals and I imagine they've just let her go home. I can't even see how she'll manage her stairs to get to bed / bathroon, let alone undress Etc......... Oh such worry
Sorry for all these questions xxxxx
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