Hi all
New to the forum. A bit about me and my situation.
My name is Karen, 42yrs old, and I am my mums carer, she was diagnosed with Alzheimers a little over 5 years ago.
I am living with her in her council flat and my name is not on the tenancy. I have been told by a couple of people (friends, not experts) that if my mum moves I to a care home then I cannot succeed her tenancy? I do work, but finding it more and more difficult to carry on with the current situation. I'm more depressed than I have ever been (probably a common condition for carers), every day that does by she is causing more and more damage to the flat. She's wrecked the toilet by breaking the cistern and losing the flush buttons. She takes the cat poop out of the litter box and leaves it all over the house, rotting food everywhere in random places, bloody and poop marks all over the place, when the carers visit and give her food and tea she pours it on the living room floor or tips it behind the sofa, I can't cope, I'm exhausted, but also terrified of being made homeless and having to move away from my support network. the flat is a 3 bed flat and I would never expect or want to keep a 3 bed flat and know I would need to downsize to a 1 bed if I were to be rehoused, I just need to know if I need to prepare for the worst as I cannot cope with mum for mum longer....it's going to kill me
New to the forum. A bit about me and my situation.
My name is Karen, 42yrs old, and I am my mums carer, she was diagnosed with Alzheimers a little over 5 years ago.
I am living with her in her council flat and my name is not on the tenancy. I have been told by a couple of people (friends, not experts) that if my mum moves I to a care home then I cannot succeed her tenancy? I do work, but finding it more and more difficult to carry on with the current situation. I'm more depressed than I have ever been (probably a common condition for carers), every day that does by she is causing more and more damage to the flat. She's wrecked the toilet by breaking the cistern and losing the flush buttons. She takes the cat poop out of the litter box and leaves it all over the house, rotting food everywhere in random places, bloody and poop marks all over the place, when the carers visit and give her food and tea she pours it on the living room floor or tips it behind the sofa, I can't cope, I'm exhausted, but also terrified of being made homeless and having to move away from my support network. the flat is a 3 bed flat and I would never expect or want to keep a 3 bed flat and know I would need to downsize to a 1 bed if I were to be rehoused, I just need to know if I need to prepare for the worst as I cannot cope with mum for mum longer....it's going to kill me