My friend was diagnosed with mixed dementia 3 years ago. He lives on his own in a flat. Over the past 2 years has got steadily worse, now has carers 3 times a day. I am his friend, but since covid just became his carer. I dealt with his shopping, meds, appointments, phone calls, etc and everyday visited 2/3 hours, no sooner I had left he would phone, this is apart from phone calls before I got there.up to 20 times a day. He has had problems with locking his door , locking himself out, and the worst is his frustration, as he has started banging his head, or hitting the wall with his fist, once or twice he has hit me too, quite unexpectedly. His speech is going now as well.
He recently went into respite care for 3 weeks and is due to come out tomorrow, but social services are having a meeting with him for mental capacity and assessment for him to stay in there. He rings me in a morning, asking to go back to his flat, he doesn't like it there, although they do have activities every day, and seem quite nice. I have not been invited to the meeting, I hold p o a for him. Do you think I should be present, or will that complicated his answers.
He recently went into respite care for 3 weeks and is due to come out tomorrow, but social services are having a meeting with him for mental capacity and assessment for him to stay in there. He rings me in a morning, asking to go back to his flat, he doesn't like it there, although they do have activities every day, and seem quite nice. I have not been invited to the meeting, I hold p o a for him. Do you think I should be present, or will that complicated his answers.