Hi All
I sort of gatecrashed, maybe that is to strong, I just insisted I be present at the weekly meeting with Mum's consultant, ward Doctor, nurse etc.
Mum has taken another step downwards and I'll give you three guesses what caused it?
A UTI, so we are back to the beginning, trying to stabalise her, when the UTI has been dealt with.
The consultant gave wouldn't, couldn't? or just covering his A-- answers.
He doesn't see Mum being discharged before mid January, but still said it was early days and was maybe slightly hopeful of turning Mum around, so that she could go back to residential care. Mum at the moment has to have one to one nursing care for her safety.
I cannot imagine that medication can improve Mum's condition to such a vast extent that residential care will meet her care needs. After all we've been there.
What I then discovered I think, he was sitting on the fence.
He didn't want me to terminate the contract with Mum's care home, he was keeping his options open, if, when, they discharge her from the acute assessment unit in the hospital and she has nowhere to go (technically homeless)
I have found out that homeless, in NHS speak, doesn't mean technically, you don't have a home/house. It means that there is nowhere immediately available when they are ready to discharge, so therefore in an acute assessment ward, they can't discharge, so it would be bed blocking.
And again I think I perceived from the meeting that everything will be tried before continuing care is granted.
Fair enough, but I don't want MUM so sedated that yes, she could be anywhere and manageable, but prescibed a chemical cosh to save the NHS money
Sorry for this rant, but I don't know what to do for the best and Dad, in the care home has refused to get out of bed to-day, as has mostly been the norm since Saturday, so I am worried about hin also.
Sorry
Alfjess
I sort of gatecrashed, maybe that is to strong, I just insisted I be present at the weekly meeting with Mum's consultant, ward Doctor, nurse etc.
Mum has taken another step downwards and I'll give you three guesses what caused it?
A UTI, so we are back to the beginning, trying to stabalise her, when the UTI has been dealt with.
The consultant gave wouldn't, couldn't? or just covering his A-- answers.
He doesn't see Mum being discharged before mid January, but still said it was early days and was maybe slightly hopeful of turning Mum around, so that she could go back to residential care. Mum at the moment has to have one to one nursing care for her safety.
I cannot imagine that medication can improve Mum's condition to such a vast extent that residential care will meet her care needs. After all we've been there.
What I then discovered I think, he was sitting on the fence.
He didn't want me to terminate the contract with Mum's care home, he was keeping his options open, if, when, they discharge her from the acute assessment unit in the hospital and she has nowhere to go (technically homeless)
I have found out that homeless, in NHS speak, doesn't mean technically, you don't have a home/house. It means that there is nowhere immediately available when they are ready to discharge, so therefore in an acute assessment ward, they can't discharge, so it would be bed blocking.
And again I think I perceived from the meeting that everything will be tried before continuing care is granted.
Fair enough, but I don't want MUM so sedated that yes, she could be anywhere and manageable, but prescibed a chemical cosh to save the NHS money
Sorry for this rant, but I don't know what to do for the best and Dad, in the care home has refused to get out of bed to-day, as has mostly been the norm since Saturday, so I am worried about hin also.
Sorry
Alfjess