Dear All
Hope you don't mind if I have a bit of a rant and a moan .... but I do need to get something off my chest.
Last week was a bad week with dad wandering off, culminating in me out looking for him 4 times on Sunday. But yesterday morning while dad was at Day Care, my mother who is the primary carer was rushed into hospital. I contacted the Day Care Manager to explain and they kindly agreed to keep my dad over night. I also contacted Social Care Services from the hospital (the nursing staff also rang on my behalf) to explain that at 4 p.m. today my dad would return to an empty house. We heard nothing yesterday afternoon nor this morning .... eventually I rang them just before mid day and they had it logged on their computer but hadn't allocated the case !! Talk about sitting on their hands ....
To say I wasn't impressed is an understatement, so this afternoon I made several phone calls to the Rapid Access Team at the hospital plus other Social Services Departments. Eventually managed to secure a bed for him at his usual Day Care Unit until Sunday (they have been wonderful by the way). Now I am a fairly assertive person, polite but firm, but I do wonder how someone who doesn't have this personality trait deal with the inaction.
Sounds like mum has to have an operation but still waiting for scans and tests, so I am looking for help from SS to organise longer-term care for my dad. They should be ringing me tomorrow morning to arrange a meeting, not holding my breath but wish me luck.
Jules
Hope you don't mind if I have a bit of a rant and a moan .... but I do need to get something off my chest.
Last week was a bad week with dad wandering off, culminating in me out looking for him 4 times on Sunday. But yesterday morning while dad was at Day Care, my mother who is the primary carer was rushed into hospital. I contacted the Day Care Manager to explain and they kindly agreed to keep my dad over night. I also contacted Social Care Services from the hospital (the nursing staff also rang on my behalf) to explain that at 4 p.m. today my dad would return to an empty house. We heard nothing yesterday afternoon nor this morning .... eventually I rang them just before mid day and they had it logged on their computer but hadn't allocated the case !! Talk about sitting on their hands ....
To say I wasn't impressed is an understatement, so this afternoon I made several phone calls to the Rapid Access Team at the hospital plus other Social Services Departments. Eventually managed to secure a bed for him at his usual Day Care Unit until Sunday (they have been wonderful by the way). Now I am a fairly assertive person, polite but firm, but I do wonder how someone who doesn't have this personality trait deal with the inaction.
Sounds like mum has to have an operation but still waiting for scans and tests, so I am looking for help from SS to organise longer-term care for my dad. They should be ringing me tomorrow morning to arrange a meeting, not holding my breath but wish me luck.
Jules